[Bug 965371] Re: HTTPS requests fail on sites which immediately close the connection if TLS 1.1 negotiation is attempted, on Ubuntu 12.04

[Robert Schanafelt]

+1 Adam

I really can't understand why is there still no response or activity
from the Ubuntu team? This is really astounding that we haven't had this
addressed, to Adam's point, you don't want to break the experience of
users trying to upgrade...

I've commented here, I've emailed the Bug owner but I've gotten zero
response. Does anyone here know someone at Canonical who can address
this?

Are there any elegant workarounds available besides what's mentioned
above?

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Title:
  HTTPS requests fail on sites which immediately close the connection if
  TLS 1.1 negotiation is attempted, on Ubuntu 12.04

Status in OpenSSL cryptography and SSL/TLS toolkit:
  Confirmed
Status in “openssl” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “openssl” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in “openssl” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This week, HTTPS connections from a Python script I wrote started
  giving me this error:

  urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:497: EOF occurred in
  violation of protocol>

  This used to work up until some three days ago and still works on
  other Ubuntu versions, but not in other Python versions on Precise. I
  was suspecting this was a bug in Python, but a guy on AskUbuntu (
  http://askubuntu.com/questions/116020/python-https-requests-urllib2
  -to-some-sites-fail-on-ubuntu-12-04-without-proxy/116059#116059 )
  found out this happens using the openssl command line tool too:

  $ openssl s_client -connect www.mediafire.com:443

  But succeeds if forcing TLS 1 with the -tls1 argument.

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