request fails on wikipedia (https) - certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:748)

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Install pyopenssl package and try again?
-------- Original Message --------
On 11 Dec 2017, 16:44, F Massion wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to get information from Wikipedia articles and I am testing the connection to Wikipedia.
>
> I am running Python 3.6.2 on Windows 10.
>
> I get certificate errors for all pages with https.
> Any suggestions are welcome!
>
> Here my code:
>
> import requests, bs4
> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
> res = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stethoscope')
> type(res)
> res.status_code == requests.codes.ok
> wiki = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text)
> type(wiki)
> len(res.text)
> print(res.text[:250])
>
> Here the error message:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 601, in urlopen
> chunked=chunked)
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 346, in _make_request
> self._validate_conn(conn)
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 850, in _validate_conn
> conn.connect()
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 326, in connect
> ssl_context=context)
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 329, in ssl_wrap_socket
> return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 401, in wrap_socket
> _context=self, _session=session)
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 808, in __init__
> self.do_handshake()
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 1061, in do_handshake
> self._sslobj.do_handshake()
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 683, in do_handshake
> self._sslobj.do_handshake()
> ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:748)
>
> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 440, in send
> timeout=timeout
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 639, in urlopen
> _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 388, in increment
> raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
> urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='en.wikipedia.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /wiki/Stethoscope (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:748)'),))
>
> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "web_1.py", line 3, in
> res = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stethoscope')
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 72, in get
> return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 58, in request
> return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 508, in request
> resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 618, in send
> r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
> File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 506, in send
> raise SSLError(e, request=request)
> requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='en.wikipedia.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /wiki/Stethoscope (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:748)'),))
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