Comment 23 for bug 965371

Yesterday, the same happened on Emesene https://github.com/emesene/emesene/issues/1184:

[02:02:16 ERROR e3.common.Collections] [Errno socket error] [Errno 8] ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/andre/emesene/emesene/e3/common/Collections.py", line 181, in fetch_metadata
 rq = self.github.get_raw(self.theme, current_ext.files[path])
 File "/home/andre/emesene/emesene/e3/common/Github.py", line 42, in get_raw
 response = urlopen(API_GITHUB_GETRAW % (self._org, repo, sha))
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 86, in urlopen
 return opener.open(url)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 207, in open
 return getattr(self, name)(url)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 436, in open_https
 h.endheaders(data)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 954, in endheaders
 self._send_output(message_body)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 814, in _send_output
 self.send(msg)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 776, in send
 self.connect()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1161, in connect
 self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 381, in wrap_socket
 ciphers=ciphers)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 143, in __init_
 self.do_handshake()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 305, in do_handshake
 self._sslobj.do_handshake()
 IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno 8] _ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol