SSLError: sslv3 alert handshake failure

Question

I\'m making the following call to branch.io

import requests
req = requests.get(\'https://bnc.lt/m/H3XKyKB3Tq\', verify=False)

It works fine

Answer 1

Jyo de Lys has identified the problem. The problem is described here and the solution is here. I did the following to get this working:

1. easy_install pyOpenSSL
2. easy_install ndg-httpsclient
3. easy_install pyasn1

If you're getting this error while using urllib2, you'll need to upgrade to python 2.7.9 or later too.