urllib.request.urlopen fails with https

[Gregory Ewing]

Chris Angelico wrote:
> (Basically,
> what you're doing is downgrading the protection of HTTPS to something
> nearer plain HTTP. That's fine for what you're doing, but any code you
> give to students is likely to be copied and pasted into their
> production code.)
> 
> See if you can tie in with your OS's cert store first. If you can't,
> look at "import ssl" and creating a custom SSL context that doesn't
> verify.

That's likely to distract and confuse students as well.

I would suggest looking for a different example that
doesn't require interacting with an https site.

-- 
Greg