python requests ssl handshake failure

Question

Every time I try to do:

requests.get('https://url') 

I got this message:

import requests
>>> requests.get('https://reviews.gethuman.com/companies') 
Traceback (most recent call last): 
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> 
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 55, in get 
    return request('get', url, **kwargs) 
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 44, in request 
    return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)    
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 455, in request 
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) 
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 558, in send 
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) 
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 385, in send 
    raise SSLError(e) requests.exceptions.SSLError: [Errno 1]
_ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

I tried everything:

• update my requests
• update my ssl

but nothing changes.

I am using Python 2.7.6, can't change this.

Answer 1

On OSX, using python 2.7.10 / requests 2.9.1 I only had to to install requestsusing its security setup:

pip install requests[security]

This installs pyOpenSSL, ndg-httpsclient and pyasn1. https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/setup.py#L70