<urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077417:SSL

Question

Does anyone know why I am getting this error?

SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077438:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1

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Answer 1

The site is hosted by Cloudflare Free SSL and requires support for Server Name Indication (SNI). SNI is support with Python 2.7 only since version 2.7.9. I guess that you are using an older version.

verify=False (which is usually a bad idea anyway) will not help here because without SNI the handshake will fail because the server does not know which certificate is requested and thus will not sent any certificate but instead an alert.