Python Module Httplib GET request issue

Is there an update to this?  Has anyone else seen this issue?  We upgraded our Solarwinds server, and now all our python scripts are busted.  We are receiving the same error:

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', error(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host'))

I've just gotten into working with the API in Python recently but I've not come across this with the versions of the modules I'm using. Maybe we can compare notes?

(registernode)[sklassen@L1HDSandbox registernode]$ pip list
boto3 (1.2.3)
botocore (1.3.20)
docutils (0.12)
jmespath (0.9.0)
pip (8.0.2)
python-dateutil (2.4.2)
requests (2.9.1)
setuptools (18.2)
six (1.10.0)
swisclient (1.0.1)
wheel (0.24.0)

--

Steven Klassen

Developer Analyst @ Loop1 Systems, Inc.

http://www.loop1systems.com/

Seems to be an error with httplib validating the SSL Cert on the server.

to get a better error you can modify the code below,

it seems to be a problem with httplib or at least the validation that its doing. most places will not have a valid cert or a cert signed internally.

I'll have to play with the version of httplib i assume is now by default doing cert validation. likely an easy fix.

'

def sendRequest(self, **kwargs):

     --------------------snipped----------------

        try:

            conn.request(Type, URL, payload, self.header)

        except:

            print "Could not connect in call from %s. Unable to continue" % (caller)

            return None

change to:

def sendRequest(self, **kwargs):

    #    try:

     conn.request(Type, URL, payload, self.header)

        #except NameError:

        #    print "Could not connect in call from %s. Unable to continue" % (caller)

         #  return None

'

(prod)xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx:~/python/solarwinds$ python test.py

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "test.py", line 10, in <module>

    nodes1 = sw.getOrionNodes()

  File "/home/xxxxxxx/python/solarwinds/swClassLib.py", line 1717, in getOrionNodes

    status=200)

  File "/home/xxxxxxx/python/solarwinds/swClassLib.py", line 115, in sendRequest

    conn.request(Type, URL, payload, self.header)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1001, in request

    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1035, in _send_request

    self.endheaders(body)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 997, in endheaders

    self._send_output(message_body)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 850, in _send_output

    self.send(msg)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 812, in send

    self.connect()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1212, in connect

    server_hostname=server_hostname)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 350, in wrap_socket

    _context=self)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 566, in __init__

    self.do_handshake()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 788, in do_handshake

    self._sslobj.do_handshake()

ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)

I was able to work around this by doing the following to swClassLib.py  I am certain there are better easier more elegant ways, but this is just what worked for me.

swClassLib.py

import ssl

context = ssl._create_unverified_context()

class SolarWinds():

----truncated----

def https(self):

        httplib.HTTPSConnection.debuglevel = 0

        (change)

        return httplib.HTTPSConnection(self.ip, self.port)

         (TO:)

        return httplib.HTTPSConnection(self.ip, self.port, context=context)

The API HTTPS port uses the same self signed cert across all of the pollers in a installation. So it's not possible to do cert verification. I'm planning on raising a feature request so that Solarwinds make it possible.