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

[Adam Porter]

I've long wondered how to escalate important bugs that are neglected.
My best guess would be to choose some responsive Ubuntu maintainers or
project leaders and subscribe them to the bug, but I suppose that could
end up annoying some people who can't do anything about it.

Frankly, I think Bug #1 depends directly on bugs like this.  People used
to email sjobs at apple.com and ask about specific features--should someone
email Mark Shuttleworth about specific bugs, too?

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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:
  Triaged
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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