> However, in doing this, I noticed that these methods will, at best,
> work during the time between connection and the socket going secure
> and were not added to the list of methods that the SSL is documented
> as exposing. Perhaps we should just ditch them entirely?

Well, apparently the SSLSocket object is meant to be usable in clear
text mode. I'm not sure why it's like that, but your patch looks ok to
me (except that it has a debug print() call).