Comment 7 for bug 965371

If this is the intended behaviour, it sure will break a lot of programs.

Anyone knows if there's a way to force Python's urllib2.urlopen().read() to
use TLS1?

2012/3/29 Steve Langasek <email address hidden>

> This may be the intended behavior, but we should determine for sure.
>
> ** Changed in: openssl (Ubuntu Precise)
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Changed in: openssl (Ubuntu Precise)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)
>
> ** Tags added: rls-p-tracking
>
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> Title:
> HTTPS requests fail on some sites on Ubuntu 12.04
>
> Status in “openssl” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “openssl” source package in Precise:
> Confirmed
>
> 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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