I cannot request a popular SSL site without geting the error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed
.
The requests documentation states that
By default Requests bundles a set of root CAs that it trusts, sourced from the Mozilla trust store. However, these are only updated once for each Requests version. This means that if you pin a Requests version your certificates can become extremely out of date.
As this is a popular site it should be in the store when I use verify=True
, however it keeps failing. I have also tried with other SSL addresses and it also fails with this error.
import requests
headers = {
'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'
}
proxies = {
'http' : 'http://1.2.3.4:80',
'https' : 'http://1.2.3.4:443'
}
r = requests.get('https://www.example.com', proxies=proxies, verify=True)
Note that https://www.example.com is a popular UK news website, so it should be in the CA store.
Python Version: Python 2.7.11
Requests Version: requests (2.10.0)
OS: Windows 8
Am I doing something fundamentally wrong?