Comment 18 for bug 592442

I'm having a Python + SSL problem for certain hosts and I think they are related. Everything was working fine on 10.04 then I just recently upgraded to 10.10 and certain https sites don't load using python's httplib.

Booting off an 11.04 beta 1 livecd:

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.38-7-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 25 21:24:57 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ openssl s_client -host bpayview.salmat.com.au -port 443
CONNECTED(00000003)
5409:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:s23_lib.c:188:

$ openssl s_client -host www.pennytel.com -port 443
CONNECTED(00000003)
5411:error:140773F2:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert unexpected message:s23_clnt.c:602:

$ dpkg --list | grep -i ssl
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-5ubuntu1 SSL shared libraries
ii openssl 0.9.8o-5ubuntu1 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptographic tools
ii python-openssl 0.10-1ubuntu2 Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library
ii ssl-cert 1.0.28 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL