HTTPSConnection in persistent environment

is it reccommended to us the HTTPSConnection object to make socket connections in a multithreaded persistent environment? The reason I ask is that I am having intermittent problems with possibly stale socket objects being return from the _socket module which is causing some pain in my applicat

TypeError: ssl() argument 1 must be _socket.socket, not _socketobject

I am getting this error from python 2.3.5 when making secure socket connections from my mod_python based application. It is very odd because we cannot replicate this in the development environment, only in production on a cluster of 2 debian boxes with Apache2 MPM Worker w/ Mod Python 3.13. D

TypeError: ssl() argument 1 must be _socket.socket, not _socketobject

I am getting this error from python 2.3.5 when making secure socket connections from my mod_python based application. It is very odd because we cannot replicate this in the development environment, only in production on a cluster of 2 debian boxes with Apache2 MPM Worker w/ Mod Python 3.13. D