How can I troubleshoot a socket connection error from python to Splunk? (SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED)

manus — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:56:45 GMT

I'm doing my first python script connecting to Splunk. It fails with following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):  
  File "PrintInterntalIndexEventCount.py", line 14, in <module>  
    password=PASSWORD,scheme=scheme)  
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\splunklib\client.py", line 305, in connect  
    return Service(**kwargs).login()   
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\splunklib\binding.py", line 761, in login   
    password=self.password)   
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\splunklib\binding.py", line 1090, in post  
    return self.request(url, message)   
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\splunklib\binding.py", line 1107, in request
    response = self.handler(url, message, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\splunklib\binding.py", line 1225, in request
    connection.request(method, path, body, head)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1001, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1035, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 997, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 850, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 812, in send
    self.connect()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1216, in connect
    server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\ssl.py", line 350, in wrap_socket
    _context=self)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\ssl.py", line 566, in __init__
    self.do_handshake()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\ssl.py", line 788, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)

Here is the script

import splunklib.client as client

HOST = "lonsl1101443.uk.net.intra"
PORT = 8089
USERNAME = "user"
PASSWORD = "pwd"
scheme="https"

service = client.connect(
    host=HOST,
    port=PORT,
    username=USERNAME,
    password=PASSWORD,scheme=scheme)

for app in service.apps:
    print app.name

If someone has the slightest idea about why this could fail, that would help!

Re: How can I troubleshoot a socket connection error from python to Splunk? (SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED)

manus — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:33:24 GMT

The problem was my python version install.
It doesn't work with: Python 2.7.9 64bit and Python 2.7.9 32bit.
It works with 2.7.8 32 Bit

Re: How can I troubleshoot a socket connection error from python to Splunk? (SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED)

lasnow — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:48:39 GMT

Thank you, that was driving me crazy!

Re: How can I troubleshoot a socket connection error from python to Splunk? (SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED)

etz — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:53:59 GMT

Thank you! Good to know.

Re: How can I troubleshoot a socket connection error from python to Splunk? (SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED)

sylim_splunk — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:07:49 GMT

The proxy in our network is failing to verify the host certificate and hence not able to establish handshake.
After bypassing the host verification on the proxy we were able to connect to AWS endpoints.

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