That bug was incorrectly filed against Python 2.5. The OP intended to file against 2.3. It's unlikely therefore that the bug is present in Python 2.5, which is what is installed on Maemo 5.
import urllib2 response = urllib2.urlopen('https://www.google.com/voice') html = response.read() print html
Traceback (most recent call last): File "1.py", line 2, in <module> response = urllib2.urlopen('https://www.google.com/voice') File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 381, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 399, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 360, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 1115, in https_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 1082, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (101, 'Network is unreachable')>