On the same machine, my script works in python 2.3.4 outside of zope, but it doesn't work in python 2.3.4 within zope as an external script. There I get "sslerror: The read operation has timed out." Here's the script: import httplib, urllib Action = 'Create' CreateFunction = 'Create using Function' WLP = '123' WLPPW = '456' params = urllib.urlencode({'CreateFunction':CreateFunction, 'Action':Action, 'WLP':WLP, 'WLPPW':WLPPW, 'ClientLoginId':ClientLoginID, 'ClientPassword':'ClientPassword'}) headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"} conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("xxxxx.xxxx.com") conn.request("POST", "/ClientReg.asp", params, headers) response = conn.getresponse() data = response.read() print data conn.close() Why I am I getting different response from within Zope versus without? Thanks, Joshua