diff --git a/patches/base/s3ql/remove-ssl-monkeypatch.patch b/patches/base/s3ql/remove-ssl-monkeypatch.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..565cd44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/base/s3ql/remove-ssl-monkeypatch.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/tests/t0_http.py b/tests/t0_http.py
+index 66ed564f..36bebab1 100755
+--- a/tests/t0_http.py
++++ b/tests/t0_http.py
+@@ -289,7 +289,6 @@ def do_GET(self):
+ 
+     # We don't *actually* want to establish SSL, that'd be
+     # to complex for our mock server
+-    monkeypatch.setattr('ssl.match_hostname', lambda x, y: True)
+     conn = HTTPConnection(
+         test_host,
+         test_port,