diff -rup urlgrabber-3.0.0-orig/urlgrabber/keepalive.py urlgrabber-3.0.0/urlgrabber/keepalive.py
--- urlgrabber-3.0.0-orig/urlgrabber/keepalive.py	2006-07-20 16:15:58.000000000 -0400
+++ urlgrabber-3.0.0/urlgrabber/keepalive.py	2008-07-10 17:37:06.000000000 -0400
@@ -328,12 +328,16 @@ class HTTPHandler(KeepAliveHandler, urll
     def http_open(self, req):
         return self.do_open(HTTPConnection, req)
 
-class HTTPSHandler(KeepAliveHandler, urllib2.HTTPSHandler):
-    def __init__(self):
-        KeepAliveHandler.__init__(self)
+# If SSL isn't available, don't make urlgrabber completely unusable
+try: 
+  class HTTPSHandler(KeepAliveHandler, urllib2.HTTPSHandler):
+      def __init__(self):
+          KeepAliveHandler.__init__(self)
     
-    def https_open(self, req):
-        return self.do_open(HTTPSConnection, req)
+      def https_open(self, req):
+          return self.do_open(HTTPSConnection, req)
+except:
+  pass
 
 class HTTPResponse(httplib.HTTPResponse):
     # we need to subclass HTTPResponse in order to