InsecurePlatformWarning using requests on https website

[camfrout]

Hi everyone,
I am trying to set up a connection to a https website using requests with the following:

import requests
...
requests.get(url)

When I try to run my script, I receive an error 14077438 (from _ssl.c:504). And if I look at the console, the following error appears: "InsecurePlatformWarning xxx.../urllib3/util/ssl_.py:122: A true SSLContext is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning"

I have installed 3 additional pip packages through stash as read on this page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18578439/using-requests-with-tls-doesnt-give-sni-support/18579484#18579484 but no luck...

Packages:
pyOpenSSL
ndg-httpsclient
pyasn1

Any idea if it is possible to fix this issue in Pythonista2?
Thanks a lot

Benoit

[yellinben]

I've had this issue before and it disappeared after I reset the app' data. My guess is that I accidentally installed requests as a dependency locally, overriding the built-in version. Worth a shot to try a pip uninstall of requests in stash.

[camfrout]

Thanks for the reply. I have removed requests from stash but no luck, it is still failing.

Although it is working with the Beta of Pythonista 3, using python 3.

[ccc]

Make sure that you fully quit and relaunch Pythonista after removing the module.

What do you get when you:

import requests, ssl
print(requests.__version__)
print(ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION)

[JonB]

hmm, why are you seeing a urllib3 error in pythonista 2!
maybe check what you have in pythinista2's site packages.

[ccc]

Urllib3 is embedded inside of requests.packages on both Python 2 and Python 3... The following post is 5 years old but shows why the Requests author thought that urllib3 was the stepping stone to nirvana http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/major-progress-for-requests

[dgelessus]

@JonB urllib3 is not the Python 3 version of urllib2. It's an independent third-party module. The Python 3 urllib module consists of what was under urllib, urllib2 and urlparse under Python 2.

[ccc]

You can also requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings() to silence these warnings.

[Tizzy]

At some point I started getting insecure platform warnings when requests was upgraded in Pythonista many many builds ago.

[ccc]

@Tizzy This was reported in the Pythonista v1.6 beta timeframe https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/1782/beta-status-update/49 and then you wrote: https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/1782/beta-status-update/91 and @omz responds a few posts down from your post.

These are just warnings, not halting errors and you can suppress them as described above.

[camfrout]

No luck even after closing Pythonista 2.

My current versions are:
requests - 2.5.1
OpenSSL - 1.0.1g 7 Apr 2014