Am Samstag, den 08.12.2012, 11:09 +0900 schrieb TANIGUCHI Takaki: > I think this bug is caused by openssl. I guess it is Bug#683159.
This seems correct. The suggested workaround there, to set -ssl3 by hand, also works for python: import socket, ssl sg = ssl.wrap_socket(socket.create_connection(('secure.nicovideo.jp', 443)), ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3)