requests.exceptions.SSLError

Question

I have fiddle.py containing 4 lines

import requests

url = "https://randomuser.me/api/"
locations = requests.get(url,verify=False).json()

print locations

When I run it, I kept getting

requests.exceptions.SSLError: [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:590)

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Try #1

Set verify=False

Run the code, Same Error.

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Try #2

Run sudo pip install --upgrade requests

Run the code, same error.

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Try #3

Run

sudo pip install --upgrade pip

and

sudo pip install requests[security]

Run the code, different error.

requests.exceptions.SSLError: ("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO', 'sslv3 alert handshake failure')],)",)

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Details

• Python 2.7.10
• OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016
• Mac OS X 10.11.6

How can I debug this?

Answer 1

You want to be on OpenSSL 1.0.2 and python 2.7.12. You will probably also want the latest curl.

brew update
brew upgrade openssl
brew upgrade curl
brew upgrade python

python --version # make sure you have python 2.7.12
curl https://randomuser.me/api/ # to verify