I am getting the following error:
Exception in thread Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 763, in run
self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
File "/Users/Matthew/Desktop/Skypebot 2.0/bot.py", line 271, in process
info = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1240, in https_open
context=self._context)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)>
This is the code that is causing this error:
if input.startswith("!web"):
input = input.replace("!web ", "")
url = "https://domainsearch.p.mashape.com/index.php?name=" + input
req = urllib2.Request(url, headers={ 'X-Mashape-Key': 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' })
info = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
Message.Chat.SendMessage ("" + info)
The API I'm using requires me to use HTTPS. How can I make it bypass the verification?
This question is related to
python
python-2.7
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This isn't a solution to your specific problem, but I'm putting it here because this thread is the top Google result for "SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED", and it lead me on a wild goose chase.
If you have installed Python 3.6 on OSX and are getting the "SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED" error when trying to connect to an https:// site, it's probably because Python 3.6 on OSX has no certificates at all, and can't validate any SSL connections. This is a change for 3.6 on OSX, and requires a post-install step, which installs the certifi
package of certificates. This is documented in the ReadMe, which you should find at /Applications/Python\ 3.6/ReadMe.rtf
The ReadMe will have you run this post-install script, which just installs certifi
: /Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command
Release notes have some more info: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360/
The SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error could also occur because an Intermediate Certificate is missing in the ca-certificates
package on Linux. For example, in my case the intermediate certificate "DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA" was missing in the ca-certificates
package even though the Firefox browser includes it. You can find out which certificate is missing by directly running the wget
command on the URL causing this error. Then you can search for the corresponding link to the CRT file for this certificate from the official website (e.g. https://www.digicert.com/digicert-root-certificates.htm in my case) of the Certificate Authority. Now, to include the certificate that is missing in your case, you may run the below commands using your CRT file download link instead:
wget https://cacerts.digicert.com/DigiCertSHA2SecureServerCA.crt
mv DigiCertSHA2SecureServerCA.crt DigiCertSHA2SecureServerCA.der
openssl x509 -inform DER -outform PEM -in DigiCertSHA2SecureServerCA.der -out DigicertSHA2SecureServerCA.pem.crt
sudo mkdir /usr/share/ca-certificates/extra
sudo cp DigicertSHA2SecureServerCA.pem.crt /usr/share/ca-certificates/extra/
sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates
After this you may test again with wget
for your URL as well as by using the python urllib
package. For more details, refer to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates/+bug/1795242
There are cases when you can not use insecure connections or pass ssl context into urllib request. Here my solution based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/28052583/6709778
In a case if you want use your own cert file
import ssl
def new_ssl_context_decorator(*args, **kwargs):
kwargs['cafile'] = '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
return ssl.create_default_context(*args, **kwargs)
ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
or you can use shared file from certifi
def new_ssl_context_decorator(*args, **kwargs):
import certifi
kwargs['cafile'] = certifi.where()
return ssl.create_default_context(*args, **kwargs)
I had this problem solved by closing Fiddler (an HTTP debugging proxy) check if you have a proxy enabled and try again.
For Linux Python3.6, this worked for me.
from command line install pyopenssl and certifi
sudo pip3 install -U pyopenssl
sudo pip3 install certifi
and in my python3 script, added verify='/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/certifi/cacert.pem' like this:
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import certifi
auth = HTTPBasicAuth('username', 'password')
body = {}
r = requests.post(url='https://your_url.com', data=body, auth=auth, verify='/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/certifi/cacert.pem')
I hang my head in semi-shame, as I had the same issue, except that in my case, the URL I was hitting was valid, the certificate was valid. What wasn't valid was my connection out to the web. I had failed to add proxy details into the browser (IE in this case). This stopped the verification process from happening correctly.
Added in the proxy details and my python was then very happy .
I had this problem with Python 2.7.9
Here is what I did:
There isnt any "[CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)" error anymore.
My setup is Anaconda Python 3.7 on MacOS with a proxy. The paths are different.
import ssl
ssl.get_default_verify_paths()
which on my system produced
Out[35]: DefaultVerifyPaths(cafile='/miniconda3/ssl/cert.pem', capath=None,
openssl_cafile_env='SSL_CERT_FILE', openssl_cafile='/miniconda3/ssl/cert.pem',
openssl_capath_env='SSL_CERT_DIR', openssl_capath='/miniconda3/ssl/certs')
Once you know where the certificate goes, then you concatenate the certificate used by the proxy to the end of that file.
I had already set up conda to work with my proxy, by running:
conda config --set ssl_verify <pathToYourFile>.crt
If you don't remember where your cert is, you can find it in ~/.condarc
:
ssl_verify: <pathToYourFile>.crt
Now concatenate that file to the end of /miniconda3/ssl/cert.pem
and requests should work, and in particular sklearn.datasets
and similar tools
should work.
The other solutions did not work because the Anaconda setup is slightly different:
The path Applications/Python\ 3.X
simply doesn't exist.
The path provided by the commands below is the WRONG path
from requests.utils import DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH
DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH
I was having a similar problem, though I was using urllib.request.urlopen
in Python 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6. (This is a portion of the Python 3 equivalent of urllib2
, per the note at the head of Python 2's urllib2
documentation page.)
My solution was to pip install certifi
to install certifi
, which has:
... a carefully curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts.
Then, in my code where I previously just had:
import urllib.request as urlrq
resp = urlrq.urlopen('https://example.com/bar/baz.html')
I revised it to:
import urllib.request as urlrq
import certifi
resp = urlrq.urlopen('https://example.com/bar/baz.html', cafile=certifi.where())
If I read the urllib2.urlopen
documentation correctly, it also has a cafile
argument. So, urllib2.urlopen([...], certifi.where())
might work for Python 2.7 as well.
UPDATE (2020-01-01): As of Python 3.6, the cafile
argument to urlopen
has been deprecated, with the context
argument supposed to be specified instead. I found the following to work equally well on 3.5 through 3.8:
import urllib.request as urlrq
import certifi
import ssl
resp = urlrq.urlopen('https://example.com/bar/baz.html', context=ssl.create_default_context(cafile=certifi.where()))
In python 2.7 adding Trusted root CA details at the end in file C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\certifi\cacert.pem helped
after that i did run (using admin rights) pip install --trusted-host pypi.python.org --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org packageName
$ cd $HOME
$ wget --quiet https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
$ export SSL_CERT_FILE=$HOME/cacert.pem
import request
response = requests.get("url/api that you want to hit", verify="path to ssl certificate")
For me the problem was that none of the above answers completely helped me but gave me the right direction to look at.
For sure, SSL certificate is needed but when you are behind the company's firewall then publicly available certificates might not help. You might need to reach out to the IT department of your company to obtain the certificate as each company uses special certificate from the security provider they have contracted the services from. And place it in a folder and pass the path to that folder as an argument to verify parameter.
For me even after trying all the above solutions and using the wrong certificate I was not able to make it work. So just remember for those who are behind company's firewall to obtain the right certificate. It can make a difference between success and failure of your request call.
In my case I placed the certificate in the following path and it worked like magic.
C:\Program Files\Common Files\ssl
You could also refer https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#id3 which talks about ssl verification
If you have private certs to deal with, like your orgs own CA root and intermediates part of the chain, then better to add the certs to the ca file viz. cacert.pem than bypassing the entire security apparatus (verify=False). Below code gets you going in both 2.7+ and 3+
Consider adding the whole cert chain and off course you need to do this only once.
import certifi
cafile=certifi.where() # cacert file
with open ('rootca.pem','rb') as infile:
customca=infile.read()
with open(cafile,'ab') as outfile:
outfile.write(customca)
with open ('interca.pem','rb') as infile:
customca=infile.read()
with open(cafile,'ab') as outfile:
outfile.write(customca)
with open ('issueca.pem','rb') as infile:
customca=infile.read()
with open(cafile,'ab') as outfile:
outfile.write(customca)
Then this should get you going
import requests
response = requests.request("GET", 'https://yoursecuresite.com', data = {})
print(response.text.encode('utf8'))
Hope this helps
To expand on Craig Glennie's answer:
in Python 3.6.1 on MacOs Sierra
Entering this in the bash terminal solved the problem:
pip install certifi
/Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command
Python 2.7 on Amazon EC2 with centOS 7
I had to set the env variable SSL_CERT_DIR
to point to my ca-bundle
which was located at /etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
I had a similar problem on one of my Linux machines. Generating fresh certificates and exporting an environment variable pointing to the certificates directory fixed it for me:
$ sudo update-ca-certificates --fresh
$ export SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs
You could try adding this to your environment variables:
PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY=0
Note that this will disable all HTTPS verification so is a bit of a sledgehammer approach, however if verification isn't required it may be an effective solution.
import requests
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()
import ssl
try:
_create_unverified_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
except AttributeError:
# Legacy Python that doesn't verify HTTPS certificates by default
pass
else:
# Handle target environment that doesn't support HTTPS verification
ssl._create_default_https_context = _create_unverified_https_context
Taken from here https://gist.github.com/michaelrice/a6794a017e349fc65d01
Try
pip install --trusted-host pypi.python.org packagename
It worked for me.
Like I've written in a comment, this problem is probably related to this SO answer.
In short: there are multiple ways to verify the certificate. The verification used by OpenSSL is incompatible with the trusted root certificates you have on your system. OpenSSL is used by Python.
You could try to get the missing certificate for Verisign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority and then use the cafile
option according to the Python documentation:
urllib2.urlopen(req, cafile="verisign.pem")
For Python 3.4+ on Centos 6/7,Fedora, just install the trusted CA this way :
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
update-ca-trust force-enable
update-ca-trust extract
ln -s /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt /etc/ssl/cert.pem
(FreeBSD 10.1
)
sudo easy_install pip
use ignore installed option to ignore uninstalling previous version of six, else, it gives an error while uninstalling and does not movie forward
sudo pip3 install -U nltk --ignore-installed six
Check the installation of pip and python, use the '3' versions
which python python2 python3
which pip pip2 pip3
Check if NLTK is installed
python3
import nltk
nltk.__path__
['/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nltk']
Install SSL certificate prior to installing the examples book, else we will certificate error while installing the examples
/Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command
python3 -m nltk.downloader book
That completed the installation successfully of nltk and nltk_ata for book examples
For anyone using mechanize
who comes across this question, here's how you can apply the same technique to a mechanize Browser instance:
br = mechanize.Browser()
context = ssl._create_unverified_context()
br.set_ca_data(context=context)
Take a look at
/Applications/Python 3.6/Install Certificates.command
You can also go to Aplications ans click on Certificates.command
I need to add another answer because just like Craig Glennie, I went on a wild goose chase due to the many posts referring to this problem across the Web.
I am using MacPorts, and what I originally thought was a Python problem was in fact a MacPorts problem: it does not install a root certificate with its installation of openssl. The solution is to port install curl-ca-bundle
, as mentioned in this blog post.
Another Anaconda solution. I was getting CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED in my Python 2.7 environment on macOS. It turns out the conda paths were bad:
base (3.7) environment:
>>> import ssl
>>> ssl.get_default_verify_paths()
DefaultVerifyPaths(cafile='/usr/local/anaconda3/ssl/cert.pem', capath=None, openssl_cafile_env='SSL_CERT_FILE', openssl_cafile='/usr/local/anaconda3/ssl/cert.pem', openssl_capath_env='SSL_CERT_DIR', openssl_capath='/usr/local/anaconda3/ssl/certs')
2.7 environment (paths did not exist!):
DefaultVerifyPaths(cafile='', capath=None, openssl_cafile_env='SSL_CERT_FILE', openssl_cafile='/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/py27/ssl/cert.pem', openssl_capath_env='SSL_CERT_DIR', openssl_capath='/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/py27/ssl/certs')
The fix:
cd /usr/local/anaconda3/envs/py27/
mkdir ssl
cd ssl
ln -s ../../../ssl/cert.pem
I am surprised all these instruction didn't solved my problem. Nonetheless, the diagnostic is correct (BTW, I am using Mac and Python3.6.1). So, to summarize the correct part :
For me, the script doesn't work, and all those certifi and openssl installation failed to fix too. Maybe because I have multiple python 2 and 3 installations, as well as many virtualenv. At the end, I need to fix it by hand.
pip install certifi # for your virtualenv
mkdir -p /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/etc/openssl
cp -a <your virtualenv>/site-package/certifi/cacert.pem \
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/etc/openssl/cert.pem
If that still fails you. Then re/install OpenSSL as well.
port install openssl
Like you, I am using python 2.7 on my old iMac (OS X 10.6.8), I met the problem too, using urllib2.urlopen :
urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED]
My programs were running fine without SSL certificate problems and suddently (after dowloading programs), they crashed with this SSL error.
The problem was the version of python used :
No problem with https://www.python.org/downloads and python-2.7.9-macosx10.6.pkg
problem with the one instaled by Homebrew tool : "brew install python", version located in /usr/local/bin.
A chapter, called Certificate verification and OpenSSL [CHANGED for Python 2.7.9]
, in /Applications/Python 2.7/ReadMe.rtf
explains the problem with many details.
So, check, download and put in your PATH the right version of python.
My solution for Mac OS X:
1) Upgrade to Python 3.6.5 using the native app Python installer downloaded from the official Python language website https://www.python.org/downloads/
I've found that this installer is taking care of updating the links and symlinks for the new Python a lot better than homebrew.
2) Install a new certificate using "./Install Certificates.command" which is in the refreshed Python 3.6 directory
> cd "/Applications/Python 3.6/"
> sudo "./Install Certificates.command"
Installing certifi on Mac solved my issue:
pip install certifi
Python 2.7.12 (default, Jul 29 2016, 15:26:22) fixed the mentioned issue. This information might help someone else.
In my case I was getting this error because requests
and urllib3
versions were incompatible, giving the following error during installation:
ERROR: requests 2.21.0 has requirement urllib3<1.25,>=1.21.1, but you'll have urllib3 1.25 which is incompatible.
pip install 'urllib3<1.25' --force-reinstall
did the trick.
Already lots of answers here, but we ran into this in a very specific case and blew a lot of time investigating, so adding yet another one. We saw it in the following case:
easy_install3
pip3
and openssl
command line were both able to verify the cert and easy_install3
was able to verify other LetsEncrypt certs successfully.
The workaround was to build the latest Python (3.7.3 at the time) from source. The instructions here are detailed and easy to follow.
I have found this over here
I found this solution, insert this code at the beginning of your source file:
import ssl
try:
_create_unverified_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
except AttributeError:
# Legacy Python that doesn't verify HTTPS certificates by default
pass
else:
# Handle target environment that doesn't support HTTPS verification
ssl._create_default_https_context = _create_unverified_https_context
This code makes the verification undone so that the ssl certification is not verified.
On Windows, Python does not look at the system certificate, it uses its own located at ?\lib\site-packages\certifi\cacert.pem
.
The solution to your problem:
cacert.pem
location: from requests.utils import DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH; print(DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH)
cacert.pem
file and paste your domain validation certificate at the end of the file.Installing PyOpenSSL
using pip
worked for me (without converting to PEM):
pip install PyOpenSSL
If your on vCenter 6, you should instead add your vCenter's vmware certificate authority cert to your OS's list of trusted CA's. To download your cert do the following
On Fedora
Links:
Source: Stackoverflow.com