Public bug reported: On Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS with python 2.7.5-5ubuntu3 and libpython2.7-stdlib 2.7.6-8ubuntu0.3, using this little example program:
#!/usr/bin/python import urllib2 USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.101 Safari/537.36' defaultHeaders = {'User-Agent':USER_AGENT, 'Accept':"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8", 'Accept-Encoding':'gzip,deflate,sdch', 'Accept-Language':'en-US,en;q=0.8'} url = "https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/ask-old-house/dcf0b26c-f7d1-4b1f-b1cf-2e521aa5e796/1000010577/hd-mezzanine-16x9/zq3zp3pg_ask1524-cove-16x9-hls-192-2500k.m3u8" req = urllib2.Request(url.encode('utf-8'), None, defaultHeaders) response = urllib2.urlopen(req, timeout=30) I get this result: $ python /tmp/urllib2-error.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/urllib2-error.py", line 15, in <module> response = urllib2.urlopen(req, timeout=30) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1222, in https_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure> ** Affects: python-defaults (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1694149 Title: ssl error using urllib2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-defaults/+bug/1694149/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs