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