SSL certificate verification failure in python on Mavericks
I'm stuck on a persistent SSL verification issue. SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED I discovered the error while building a Django app that had users authenticate using Mozilla Persona. (python3.4)> import requests (python3.4)> requests.get('https://verifier.login.persona.org') I get a SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED tracing back from requests to urllib3 to ssl : ... "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/ssl.py", line 805, in do_handshake self._sslobj.do_handshake() ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:598) ... "/Library