On a router with merlin firmware, I installed entware and python,
after I ran speedtest python script.
It shows error:
python2.7# speedtestRetrieving speedtest.net configuration…Cannot retrieve speedtest configurationERROR: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:726)>
how to fix Python SSL errors when downloading web pages using the https protocol in Python (e.g. by using the urllib, urllib2, httplib or requests. This error looks like (possibly with a line number different from 590):
self._sslobj.do_handshake() SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:590)
Server certificate verification by default has been introduced to Python recently (in 2.7.9). This protects against man-in-the-middle attacks, and it makes the client sure that the server is indeed who it claims to be.
As a quick (and insecure) fix, you can turn certificate verification off, by:
- Set PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY environment variable to 0. For example, run
export PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY=0python your_script
or
PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY=0 python your_script
2. Alternatively, you can add this to your code before doing the https request
import os, sslif (not os.environ.get(‘PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY’, ”) andgetattr(ssl, ‘_create_unverified_context’, None)):ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
