Python Requests requests.exceptions.SSLError: [Errno 8] _ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol

Reposting this here for others from the requests issue page:

Requests’ does not support doing this before version 1. Subsequent to version 1, you are expected to subclass the HTTPAdapter, like so:

from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
from requests.packages.urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager
import ssl

class MyAdapter(HTTPAdapter):
    def init_poolmanager(self, connections, maxsize, block=False):
        self.poolmanager = PoolManager(num_pools=connections,
                                       maxsize=maxsize,
                                       block=block,
                                       ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)

When you’ve done that, you can do this:

import requests
s = requests.Session()
s.mount('https://', MyAdapter())

Any request through that session object will then use TLSv1.

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