[Bug 965371] Re: HTTPS requests fail on some sites on Ubuntu 12.04

[blueshirt3k]

Until this bug is fixed I thought this hack might be helpful for
affected Python users.  Not sure what problems this creates but this
allowed my scripts to work again.  Might be good until a proper fix is
implemented.

I changed /usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py as follows:

1116c1116
<             self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file)
---
>             self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)

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Title:
  HTTPS requests fail on some sites on Ubuntu 12.04

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

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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