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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061215 Red Hat/1.5.0.9-0.1.el4 Firefox/1.5.0.9

Description of problem:
rhn-applet-2.1.25-15 on x86 rhel3_u9 does not work correctly or at all.

rhn-applet fails to communicate w/ the server 

[root@dhcp231-70 root]# rhn-applet-tui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rhn-applet-tui", line 103, in ?
    main(original_arg_list)
  File "/usr/bin/rhn-applet-tui", line 63, in main
    model = rhnAppletModelTUI(None, url, uuid)
  File "/usr/bin/../share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_model.py", line 430, in __init__
    source.refresh(1)
  File "/usr/bin/../share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_source.py", line 35, in refresh
    self._do_refresh()
  File "/usr/bin/../share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_rpc.py", line 212, in _do_refresh
    status = server.applet.poll_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 821, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 319, in _request
    request, verbose=self._verbose)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 168, in request
    headers, fd = req.send_http(host, handler)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 694, in send_http
    self._connection.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 211, in connect
    sock.settimeout(SSL.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT)
AttributeError: '_socket.socket' object has no attribute 'settimeout'


This also may be related to bug 240386.
The above SSL error may be due to the fact that its trying to connect to server_url=https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/APPLET
by default, and isnt updated when its registerd to a different server.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhn-applet-2.1.25-15 x86 only

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
see above

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional info: