TLS issue while calling stripe charge API from my local env

Question

I am implementing Stripe payment gateway in sandbox mode. I have embedded checkout process and also created token which is used by server to call API to create charges.

API version used is: stripe.api_version = '2017-06-05'

charge = stripe.Charge.create(
   amount=1000,
   currency="usd",
   description="Example charge",
   source=token,
)

When I call this charge create api, I receive the following error:

b'{\n "error": {\n "type": "invalid_request_error",\n
"message": "Stripe no longer supports API requests made with TLS 1.0. Please initiate HTTPS connections with TLS 1.2 or later. You can learn more about this at https://stripe.com/blog/upgrading-tls."\n }\n}\n'

The stripe API used to create charges in local machine is:

POST: https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges

How can I make it work on my local machine?

But when I deployed it to AWS it is working there.

Ywain Ywain · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-20T15:24:05

Your local Python interpreter is linked against an older version of OpenSSL that does not support TLS 1.2. You can check this with:

$ python -c "import ssl; print(ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION)"

You need OpenSSL 1.0.1 or more recent to use TLS 1.2.

If you're using OS X, the simplest way to fix this is to the use Homebrew package manager:

$ brew update && brew upgrade && brew install openssl && brew install python

Replace python with python3 at the end of the command line above if you're using Python 3.

TLS issue while calling stripe charge API from my local env

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