Ubuntu Python requests pulling incorrect SSL cert

Question

The requests package in Python seems to reference the incorrect SSL cert in Ubuntu. I'm using requests 2.6.2. The code runs fine on a Mac but fails on Ubuntu. I appreciate any help!

This request:

query_string = https://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/youtube.com?Sort=page_authority&Source=page_to_page&Filter=internal&LinkCols=4&Limit=50&Offset=0

requests.get(query_string, auth=(self.accessid,self.key))

Produces this error output:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mark/venvs/nessus/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 3035, in run_code exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns) File "", line 1, in requests.get('https://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/youtube.com?Sort=page_authority&Source=page_to_page&Filter=internal&LinkCols=4&Limit=50&Offset=0') File "/home/mark/venvs/nessus/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 69, in get return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs) File "/home/mark/venvs/nessus/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 50, in request response = session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs) File "/home/mark/venvs/nessus/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 465, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "/home/mark/venvs/nessus/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 573, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) File "/home/mark/venvs/nessus/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 431, in send raise SSLError(e, request=request) SSLError: hostname 'lsapi.seomoz.com' doesn't match either of 'incapsula.com', ...

Answer 1

This question boils down to being the same as this one: the version of Python you're using does not support SNI. Follow the advice in this answer.