diff -r 47ff9d1abfa9 -r c48df403caae mercurial/httpclient/__init__.py
--- a/mercurial/httpclient/__init__.py	Thu Sep 19 16:29:00 2013 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/httpclient/__init__.py	Fri Sep 20 09:15:09 2013 -0400
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@
     def __init__(self, host, port=None, use_ssl=None, ssl_validator=None,
                  timeout=TIMEOUT_DEFAULT,
                  continue_timeout=TIMEOUT_ASSUME_CONTINUE,
-                 proxy_hostport=None, **ssl_opts):
+                 proxy_hostport=None, ssl_wrap_socket=None, **ssl_opts):
         """Create a new HTTPConnection.
 
         Args:
@@ -307,12 +307,23 @@
                    "100 Continue" response. Default is TIMEOUT_ASSUME_CONTINUE.
           proxy_hostport: Optional. Tuple of (host, port) to use as an http
                        proxy for the connection. Default is to not use a proxy.
+          ssl_wrap_socket: Optional function to use for wrapping
+            sockets. If unspecified, the one from the ssl module will
+            be used if available, or something that's compatible with
+            it if on a Python older than 2.6.
+
+        Any extra keyword arguments to this function will be provided
+        to the ssl_wrap_socket method. If no ssl
         """
         if port is None and host.count(':') == 1 or ']:' in host:
             host, port = host.rsplit(':', 1)
             port = int(port)
             if '[' in host:
                 host = host[1:-1]
+        if ssl_wrap_socket is not None:
+            self._ssl_wrap_socket = ssl_wrap_socket
+        else:
+            self._ssl_wrap_socket = socketutil.wrap_socket
         if use_ssl is None and port is None:
             use_ssl = False
             port = 80
@@ -387,7 +398,7 @@
             sock.setblocking(1)
             logger.debug('wrapping socket for ssl with options %r',
                          self.ssl_opts)
-            sock = socketutil.wrap_socket(sock, **self.ssl_opts)
+            sock = self._ssl_wrap_socket(sock, **self.ssl_opts)
             if self._ssl_validator:
                 self._ssl_validator(sock)
         sock.setblocking(0)