title: Python HTTPS/SSL error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
body: <p>I'm attempting to make a simple HTTPS connection to a REST API using python from CentOS 6.5. Installed is python-2.6.6-52.el6.x86_64 and openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7.x86_64. </p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env python
  
  import httplib, json, urllib, urllib2
  
  # Gets the session ID to host
  c = httplib.HTTPSConnection("10.10.1.1")
  c.request("GET", "/services/rest/V2/?method=authenticate&amp;username=myusername&amp;password=mypasswd&amp;format=json")
  response = c.getresponse()
  data = json.loads(response.read())
  session_id = data['session_id']
  
  print "Session Created. Session ID: " + session_id
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, its giving me this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "./test3.py", line 7, in &lt;module&gt;
      c.request("GET", "/services/rest/V2/?method=authenticate&amp;username=myusername&amp;password=mypasswd&amp;format=json")
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 914, in request
      self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 951, in _send_request
      self.endheaders()
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 908, in endheaders
      self._send_output()
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 780, in _send_output
      self.send(msg)
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 739, in send
      self.connect()
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 1116, in connect
      self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file)
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ssl.py", line 342, in wrap_socket
      suppress_ragged_eofs=suppress_ragged_eofs)
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ssl.py", line 120, in __init__
      self.do_handshake()
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ssl.py", line 279, in do_handshake
      self._sslobj.do_handshake()
  ssl.SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:492: error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is this an openssl/python compatibility issue?  I've already got the latest python and openssl RPMs I can find and I'd rather not venture off the RPM reservation by compiling the latest tarball manually.</p>