https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68794 John Mark Vandenberg &lt;jayvdb(a)gmail.com&gt; changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |upstream Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW See Also| |https://github.com/jcgregor | |io/httplib2/issues/243 Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from John Mark Vandenberg &lt;jayvdb(a)gmail.com&gt; --- I can reproduce this with a custom family file I created for ofswiki (thank you for reporting which wiki this occurred on) The core problem is that httplib2<https://github.com/jcgregorio/httplib2> complains about this. $ python '0.9' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File ".../httplib2/__init__.py", line 1593, in request (response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey) File ".../httplib2/__init__.py", line 1335, in _request (response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers) File ".../httplib2/__init__.py", line 1257, in _conn_request conn.connect() File ".../httplib2/__init__.py", line 1032, in connect 'host %s: %s' % (hostname, cert), hostname, cert) CertificateHostnameMismatch: Server presented certificate that does not match host ofswiki.org: {'notAfter': 'May 23 20:21:24 2015 GMT', 'subjectAltName': (('DNS', 'www.iankelling.org'), ('DNS', 'iankelling.org')), 'subject': ((('description', u'0NEmhfbNSxh2R2RF'),), (('countryName', u'US'),), (('commonName', u'www.iankelling.org'),), (('emailAddress', u'REDACTED-AT-iankelling.org'),))} compare that with httplib2.Http().request('https://en.wikipedia.org/') And this works like a charm: The fact that it only checks the SSL certificate once is reported here: https://github.com/jcgregorio/httplib2/issues/243 I cant quickly see an issue related to the certificate problem you are experiencing. https://github.com/jcgregorio/httplib2/issues If you can find it, or create a new issue, add it to our related URLs. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68794 --- Comment #3 from Gerrit Notification Bot &lt;gerritadmin(a)wikimedia.org&gt; --- Change 160189 had a related patch set uploaded by John Vandenberg: Add ability to ignore SSL certificate errors https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/160189 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68794 --- Comment #4 from Gerrit Notification Bot &lt;gerritadmin(a)wikimedia.org&gt; --- Change 160189 merged by jenkins-bot: Add ability to ignore SSL certificate errors https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/160189 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.