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  r86676 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-11-22 12:48:26 +0800 (Mon, 22 Nov 2010) | 4 lines

  Fix Issue4493 - urllib2 adds '/' to the path component of url, when it does not
  starts with one. This behavior is exhibited by browser and other clients.
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diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 5a67c0b..7edfa1b 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 # check for SSL
 try:
     import ssl
-except:
+except ImportError:
     _have_ssl = False
 else:
     _have_ssl = True