diff --git a/tools/search/crawler/lib/basecrawler.py b/tools/search/crawler/lib/basecrawler.py
index fc173b42..95a748cc 100644
--- a/tools/search/crawler/lib/basecrawler.py
+++ b/tools/search/crawler/lib/basecrawler.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import httplib
 import time
 from email.utils import formatdate, parsedate
 import urlparse
+import ssl
 
 from Queue import Queue
 import threading