Opening SSL URLs with Python

Question

Hi folks,

I'm using mechanize to navigate pages, it works pretty well.

Unfortunately I have a random error come up, by random I mean it occasionally appears.

URLError at /test/

urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:1325: error:140943FC:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad record mac>

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I really need help on this one :)

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any ideas?

Answer 1

I had a similar error and found that PycURL works way better than urllib.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3134666/django-request-xml-file-with-ssl-io-error