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Now I managed to solve the problem for me with attached
patch of httplib.py: a explicit shutdown ( 2 or 1 ) of the
(faked) ssl'ed socket solves it. 
I still guess the ssl'ed socket (ssl dll) should do that
auto on sock.close() 
Thus I  leave it as a bug HERE. Right?

[ I also have the hope, that this also solves the
ssl-eof-errors with https (of some of my users; will see
this in future)


*** \usr\src\py24old/httplib.py Sat Sep 24 21:35:28 2005
--- httplib.py  Sat Sep 24 21:37:48 2005
*************** class SharedSocket:
*** 899,904 ****
--- 899,905 ----
          self._refcnt -= 1
          assert self._refcnt >= 0
          if self._refcnt == 0:
+             self.sock.shutdown(2)
              self.sock.close()

      def __del__(self):