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sslv3 alert handshake failure

See original GitHub issue

I’m with this error on Linux. Works fine with curl

Was installed with apt-get install httpie.

Command:

http --debug --ssl=ssl2.3 --verify=no GET https://... \                                                                                                       
  Cache-Control:no-cache \
  token:... \
  x-requested-with:XMLHttpRequest

Result:

HTTPie 0.9.8
Requests 2.18.1
Pygments 2.2.0
Python 3.6.3 (default, Oct  3 2017, 21:45:48) 
[GCC 7.2.0]
/usr/bin/python3
Linux 4.13.0-25-generic

<Environment {
    "colors": 256,
    "config": {
        "__meta__": {
            "about": "HTTPie configuration file",
            "help": "https://httpie.org/docs#config",
            "httpie": "0.9.8"
        },
        "default_options": "[]"
    },
    "config_dir": "/home/besser/.httpie",
    "is_windows": false,
    "stderr": "<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stderr>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>",
    "stderr_isatty": true,
    "stdin": "<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdin>' mode='r' encoding='UTF-8'>",
    "stdin_encoding": "UTF-8",
    "stdin_isatty": true,
    "stdout": "<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>",
    "stdout_encoding": "UTF-8",
    "stdout_isatty": true
}>

>>> requests.request(**{
    "allow_redirects": false,
    "auth": "None",
    "cert": "None",
    "data": {},
    "files": {},
    "headers": {
        "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
        "User-Agent": "HTTPie/0.9.8",
        "token": "...",
        "x-requested-with": "XMLHttpRequest"
    },
    "method": "get",
    "params": {},
    "proxies": {},
    "stream": true,
    "timeout": 30,
    "url": "https://...",
    "verify": false
})


http: error: SSLError: [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:777) while doing GET request to URL: https://...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 600, in urlopen
    chunked=chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 345, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 846, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 326, in connect
    ssl_context=context)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 325, in ssl_wrap_socket
    return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 407, in wrap_socket
    _context=self, _session=session)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 814, in __init__
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 1068, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 689, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:777)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 440, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 630, in urlopen
    raise SSLError(e)
urllib3.exceptions.SSLError: [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:777)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/http", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('httpie==0.9.8', 'console_scripts', 'http')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/httpie/__main__.py", line 11, in main
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/httpie/core.py", line 227, in main
    log_error=log_error,
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/httpie/core.py", line 99, in program
    final_response = get_response(args, config_dir=env.config.directory)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/httpie/client.py", line 70, in get_response
    response = requests_session.request(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 502, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 612, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 514, in send
    raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:777)