diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket_ssl.py b/Lib/test/test_socket_ssl.py
index cdbea31..c3fe67e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket_ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket_ssl.py
@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@
         raise last_exc
 
     def test_978833(self):
+        if not test_support.is_resource_enabled("network"):
+            return
         if test_support.verbose:
             print "test_978833 ..."