Hi, Thanks - that was the problem....incorrect system date/time. The system date time and hardware date time were off. Adjusted the system time to use one of the online time servers and then used hwclock --systohc (as a root user) to set the hardware clock.
But it is weird that the data from a website fails to render because of incorrect system date. Thanks, Shiva -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list