import httplib
import mechanize

def make_cert_handler(key_file=None, cert_file=None):
    if cert_file is None:
        cert_file = key_file

    class HTTPSCertConnection(httplib.HTTPSConnection):
        def __init__(self, host):
            httplib.HTTPSConnection.__init__(self, host,
                                             key_file=key_file,
                                             cert_file=cert_file)

    class HTTPSCertHandler(mechanize.HTTPSHandler):
        def https_open(self, req):
            return self.do_open(HTTPSCertConnection, req)

    return HTTPSCertHandler

cj = mechanize.CookieJar()

cert_handler = make_cert_handler("cert.pem")
opener = mechanize.build_opener(mechanize.HTTPRedirectHandler, cert_handler, mechanize.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
mechanize.install_opener(opener)

b = mechanize.Browser()
b.set_handle_robots(False)
b.addheaders = [("Accept-Language", "en-us,en;q=0.5"),]
b.open("https://jira.mit.edu/jira/secure/Dashboard.jsp://jira.mit.edu/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa")
b.follow_link(text="MIT Touchstone")