This seems to be the following upstream bug: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/issues/265
A fix would be to upgrade to Python 2.7.9, as indicated here: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/issues/269 Thanks, Thomas > On 9 Apr 2017, at 23:59, tony mancill <tmanc...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 09:26:45PM +0200, Henning K wrote: >> Package: gpodder >> Version: 3.9.3-1 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> when I tried to subscribe to this feed https://requestforcomments.de/feed >> using >> the gtk-ui as well as the cli gpodder raised a SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE. > > > Hello, and thank you reporting this bug. I have reproduced the bug > within gpodder but also making the same request directly using the > urllib2 library (which is how gpodder opens the URL). > > The attached test programs demonstrate that problem exists in urllib2: > > $ python2.7 858855_urllib2_test.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "858855_urllib2_test.py", line 4, in <module> > opener.open(request) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 429, in open > response = self._open(req, data) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 447, in _open > '_open', req) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain > result = func(*args) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1241, in https_open > context=self._context) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1198, in do_open > raise URLError(err) > urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 > alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:661)> > > But not when using the requests library: > > $ python2.7 858855_requests_test.py > status_code 200 > request body length 41558 > > Thus the problem seems to lie with the SSL negotiation between the site > and any python code utilizing the urllib2 library. > > I need to do some more digging, but believe that it could be a variant > of #678035 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678035). > > Cheers, > tony > <858855_urllib2_test.py><858855_requests_test.py>
