SSLEOFError: EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:590)

After installing this package on python 2.7.10 and using Google Admin API I get tons of these errors in an intermittent fashion:

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/util.py", line 135, in positional_wrapper
    return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/googleapiclient/http.py", line 827, in execute
    method=str(self.method), body=self.body, headers=self.headers)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/googleapiclient/http.py", line 167, in _retry_request
    raise exception
SSLEOFError: EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:590)

I’m using Ubuntu 14.04:

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014


ubuntu@tests:~$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Sep  7 2015, 14:45:00) 
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ssl
>>> ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION
'OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014'

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[carlopires]

@jonparrott As the problem arrives from the use of this library it would be good to have some way to inform the developers that this error can be erroneously reported by Google servers in high concurrency scenarios.

[carlopires]

@dhermes I’m doing this right now… I just wanted to make sure it is not related to Ubuntu OpenSSL version.