I am TENTATIVELY checking in Martin von Loewis's patch for the SSL problem reported by Neil Schemenauer on python-dev on 4/12/01, wth subject "Problem with SSL and socketmodule on Debian Potato?". It's tentative because Moshe objected, but Martin rebutted, and Moshe seems unavailable for comments. (Note that with OpenSSL 0.9.6a, I get a lot of compilation warnings for socketmodule.c -- I'm assuming I can safely ignore these until 2.1 is released.)

/* hypot() replacement */

#include "config.h"
#include "pyport.h"

double hypot(double x, double y)
{
	double yx;

	x = fabs(x);
	y = fabs(y);
	if (x < y) {
		double temp = x;
		x = y;
		y = temp;
	}
	if (x == 0.)
		return 0.;
	else {
		yx = y/x;
		return x*sqrt(1.+yx*yx);
	}
}