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Pablo Almeida (pabloalmeidaff9) wrote : Re: [Bug 965371] Re: HTTPS requests fail on sites which immediately close the connection if TLS 1.1 negotiation is attempted, on Ubuntu 12.04

Anyone knows a way to downgrade only openssl without breaking things and
without having to downgrade to 11.10? This is not an option for me,
unfortunely, and I really need this program.

2012/5/27 Jaakko <email address hidden>

> Any progress on this? The bug is still present in Ubuntu 12.04.
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> Title:
> HTTPS requests fail on sites which immediately close the connection if
> TLS 1.1 negotiation is attempted, on Ubuntu 12.04
>
> Status in OpenSSL cryptography and SSL/TLS toolkit:
> Confirmed
> Status in “openssl” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “openssl” source package in Precise:
> Triaged
> Status in “openssl” package in Debian:
> Fix Released
>
> 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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