SSLError: Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available on google app engine

Question

Want to use wechat sdk to create menu

WeChat.create_menu({
     \"button\":[
     {    
          \"type\":\"click\",
          \"name\":\"Daily Song\",
            


        

Answer 1

If you're using GAE's Sockets, you can get SSL support without any hacks by simply loading the SSL library.

Simply add this to your app.yaml file:

libraries:
- name: ssl
  version: latest

This is documented on Google Cloud's OpenSSL Support documentation.

Answer 2

Jan Dolejsi,

If you're using GAE's Sockets, you can get SSL support without any hacks by simply loading the SSL library.

Simply add this to your app.yaml file:

libraries: - name: ssl
- version: latest

If you're experiencing RAND_egd error, just change "-version: latest" in your app.yaml, to "-version: 2.7"!

Answer 3

This blog post details a solution. From the blog post:

The problem is GAE has a “whitelist” of select standard libraries. SSL (_ssl, _socket) is not one of them. So, we need to tweak the sandbox environment (dangerous) carefully. The below code uses the standard Python socket library instead of the GAE-provided in the development environment. Modify [or create] appengine_config.py:

import os

# Workaround the dev-environment SSL
#   http://stackoverflow.com/q/16192916/893652
if os.environ.get('SERVER_SOFTWARE', '').startswith('Development'):
    import imp
    import os.path
    from google.appengine.tools.devappserver2.python import sandbox

    sandbox._WHITE_LIST_C_MODULES += ['_ssl', '_socket']
    # Use the system socket.
    psocket = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.__file__), 'socket.py')
    imp.load_source('socket', psocket)