import urllib2
import httplib

cert_file = "cert.pem"
key_file = cert_file

class HTTPSCertConnection(httplib.HTTPSConnection):
    def __init__(self, host):
        httplib.HTTPSConnection.__init__(self, host, None, key_file, cert_file)

class HTTPSCertHandler(urllib2.HTTPSHandler):
    def do_open(self, http_class, req):
        if http_class is httplib.HTTPSConnection:
            http_class = HTTPSCertConnection
        return urllib2.HTTPSHandler.do_open(self, http_class, req)

opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler, HTTPSCertHandler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

#req = urllib2.Request(url='https://geofft.scripts.mit.edu:444/detect.php')
#f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
#print f.read()

req = urllib2.Request(url='https://jira.mit.edu/jira/secure/mit_login.jsp?os_destination=/secure/Dashboard.jspa')
print urllib2.urlopen(req).read()