Python requests and streaming - AttributeError: 'X509' object has no attribute '_x509'

Question

Python requests is having issues:

rs = requests.get(STREAM_URL, stream=True,headers=headers)

Process Process-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 258, in _bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 114, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "oanda_streaming_pairs_server.py", line 287, in multistreamer
    rs = requests.get(STREAM_URL, stream=True,headers=headers)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/api.py", line 70, in get
    return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/api.py", line 56, in request
    return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/sessions.py", line 488, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/sessions.py", line 609, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/adapters.py", line 423, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 594, in urlopen
    chunked=chunked)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 350, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 835, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 330, in connect
    cert = self.sock.getpeercert()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py", line 324, in getpeercert
    'subjectAltName': get_subj_alt_name(x509)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.12.0-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py", line 166, in get_subj_alt_name
    cert = _Certificate(openssl_backend, peer_cert._x509)
AttributeError: 'X509' object has no attribute '_x509'

Answer 1

In my case, it turned out that the version of pyOpenSSL was too old. My Ubuntu 14.4 was running version 0.13 of pyOpenSSL. I was getting the reported error with elasticsearch python library.

I had to update pyOpenSSL by running:

sudo pip install -U pyOpenSSL

You can check pyOpenSSL version with:

python -c 'import OpenSSL; print(OpenSSL.__version__)'