My experiences with Mercurial

[Bela Babik]

> I assume that I need to have the OpenSSL Python bindings installed,
> right? I took a quick look at the patch and I saw the OpenSSL setup

Yes, and if you are a windows user, you will find help here:
http://webcleaner.sourceforge.net/install.html  (search for ssl)

> initiate a SSL handshake. As you may know - there are two strategies
> here: on the fly switch to SSL (the underlying protocol has to
> support this) or a separate port strategy. As I'm not familiar with

"https://" is supported by the httprepo.py as I can see, give it a try.