'AWSHTTPSConnection' object has no attribute 'ssl_context'

[Gregorio Corral Torres]

Gnocchi shows the following error 'AWSHTTPSConnection' object has no attribute 'ssl_context'' in gnocchi_error.log

ii python-gnocchi 3.1.9-0ubuntu1~cloud0 all Metric as a Service - Python 2.x
ii python-openssl 16.2.0-1~cloud0 all Python 2 wrapper around the OpenSSL library

 2018-03-22 12:17:58.663441 mod_wsgi (pid=18370): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnocchi/rest/app.wsgi'.
2018-03-22 12:17:58.663464 Traceback (most recent call last):
2018-03-22 12:17:58.663476 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webob/dec.py", line 131, in __call__
2018-03-22 12:17:58.663493 resp = self.call_func(req, *args, **self.kwargs)
2018-03-22 12:17:58.663500 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webob/dec.py", line 196, in call_func
2018-03-22 12:17:58.663510 return self.func(req, *args, **kwargs)
...
2018-03-22 12:17:58.664019 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 846, in _validate_conn
2018-03-22 12:17:58.664027 conn.connect()
2018-03-22 12:17:58.664032 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 311, in connect
2018-03-22 12:17:58.664039 if self.ssl_context is None:
2018-03-22 12:17:58.664050 AttributeError: 'AWSHTTPSConnection' object has no attribute 'ssl_context'

[Gregorio Corral Torres (gregorio.corral)]

 Following the suggestion of
 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45821085/awshttpsconnection-object-has-no-attribute-ssl-context

 I downgraded resquests python package to 2.12 using pip:

 sudo pip install requests==2.12

 pip show requests
 Name: requests
 Version: 2.12.0
 Summary: Python HTTP for Humans.
 Home-page: http://python-requests.org
 Author: Kenneth Reitz
 Author-email: <email address hidden>
 License: Apache 2.0
 Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
 Requires:

It seems a workaround bat not a the best solution.