SSL error with Python requests despite up-to-date dependencies

Question

I am getting an SSL \"bad handshake\" error. Most similar responses to this problem seem to stem from old libraries, 1024bit cert. incompatibility, etc... I think

Answer 1

I fixed it using the python-certifi-win32 package:

pip install python-certifi-win32

or with anaconda

conda install -c conda-forge python-certifi-win32

then you can use:

requests.get(url)
#or
requests.get(url, verify=True)

and the certificate is checked using the Windows Certificate Store.

This only works if the certificate is installed in the Windows Certificate Store.