[Death-Axe]

We believe the problem stems from the version of Open SSL thats used by the XBMC provided version of python (All we're seeing is alot of urllib failures with the ssl_ctx_new error when trying to connect to googles https address for login). The login problem is mostly affecting windows users and to some degree linux users (Reflecting the focus of XBMC's devs). As such there's not anything we can do about these errors, It's a problem with XBMC™.

The annoying thing with this error is that it's not always reproducible, some days it happens every try, other times it just works (At least that's my experience on OSX).

For the next beta we're switching to a new login URL, but since this still needs SSL encryption, and XBMC still has this problem I don't expect it to get better. Maybe around "Eden" but that depends on how much work is put into the python version distributed with windows.

Why does removing it, and such fix it though? all seems rather silly.