diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 4750685..6c3b5e0 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -575,13 +575,16 @@
         if mode != 'r' and mode != 'rb':
             raise UnimplementedFileMode()
 
-        msgbuf = ""
+        msgbuf = []
         while 1:
             try:
-                msgbuf = msgbuf + self.__ssl.read()
+                buf = self.__ssl.read()
             except socket.sslerror, msg:
                 break
-        return StringIO(msgbuf)
+            if buf == '':
+                break
+            msgbuf.append(buf)
+        return StringIO("".join(msgbuf))
 
     def send(self, stuff, flags = 0):
         return self.__ssl.write(stuff)
@@ -809,6 +812,7 @@
 
     if hasattr(socket, 'ssl'):
         host = 'sourceforge.net'
+        selector = '/projects/python'
         hs = HTTPS()
         hs.connect(host)
         hs.putrequest('GET', selector)
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index b3571a5..9b6300c 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -2165,17 +2165,14 @@
 	res = SSL_get_error(self->ssl, count);
 
 	switch (res) {
-	case 0:			/* Good return value! */
+	case SSL_ERROR_NONE:
+		assert(count > 0);
 		break;
-	case 6:
-		PyErr_SetString(SSLErrorObject, "EOF");
-		Py_DECREF(buf);
-		return NULL;
+	case SSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN: /* normal EOF */
+		assert(count == 0);
 		break;
-	case 5:
 	default:
 		return PyErr_SetFromErrno(SSLErrorObject);
-		break;
 	}
   
 	fflush(stderr);