SSL

[aulibou]

Awfully dumb question, I'm afraid:
I get 'urllib2.URLError', [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED]

I'm an ignorant am willing to learn. What am I missing?

[cmaxwe]

If you are using the standard Python install from OSX then it could be a problem with that.

Try running:
/Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command

Replace 3.6 in the above command with whatever version of Python you have.

[aulibou]

I am, yes!

The script just doesn't work under Python 3.6 (Anaconda install), it's a Python2 script, no? Anyways, the core of the problem seems to be discussed in this StackOverflow post. I'll keep digging (even tough I'm in way over my head :) )

**edit: that SO post is about ignoring SSL cert. Obviously not what we want here. Sorry.

[cmaxwe]

The problem is that the script is trying to connect to the NHL server and it is saying that it is unable to tell whether the NHL server is actually the server that it claims that it is.

So this means either one of two things is happening...

1. Your Python install doesn't have root certificates and can't verify any HTTPS servers
2. Your network has something odd (like a proxy) which is causing the script to connect to a server other than the NHL server. So in that case you are not able to verify the NHL server because it actually isn't the NHL server that it is responding to the request.

If the issue is #1 then you need to install root certificates (or add some code to ignore the certificate validation).

If the issue is #2 then proxy support would need to be added to the script (installing root certificates or ignoring certificate validation wouldn't solve this problem).