https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428861#M6271 <P>Converted to answer <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span> </P> <P>cheers, MuS</P> Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:48:27 GMT MuS 2019-03-13T18:48:27Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428856#M6266 <P>I have a simple external lookup python script that implements a simple post request and returns the result to the splunk search.I know the script will call splunk built-in python, so I suspect that there is a problem with the built-in ssl library , which causes the script to fail to request the https website.</P> <P>When running python script with module requests to get https response,it occurrs a error 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'wrap_socket'. </P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6663iCC0573DCF2F884E1/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> <P>If I put splunk's python executable file (/opt/splunk/bin/python2.7 ) soft link to linux os python， everything works fine. However, some functions of splunk become unusable. For example, splunk will return an error when creating a new user. This is because I changed the soft link of the splunk python executable. So I can't modify splunk's python program at random. </P> <P>So how to solve this problem? Who can provide an example of an external lookup script that requests the https website?</P> <P>all help would be greatly appreciated.</P> <P>splunk verson 6.4.3</P> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 06:26:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428856#M6266 bestSplunker 2019-03-12T06:26:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428857#M6267 <P>As you have noticed, you should not try to replace/link the python packages with that of the local OS - bad things will happen.</P> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:38:59 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428857#M6267 nickhills 2019-03-12T10:38:59Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428858#M6268 <P>@nickhillscpl OK,So is splunk's built-in SSL lib in wrong ? Have you ever used external lookups to request HTTPS websites? Have you ever encountered such a problem?</P> Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:59:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428858#M6268 bestSplunker 2019-03-13T00:59:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428859#M6269 <P>The easiest option would be to place the OS <CODE>requests</CODE> module into your apps <CODE>bin</CODE> directory so this will be loaded. Another option is to insert the OS Python module path before the Splunk Python module path in your script.</P> <P>I did both previously in Python scripts and it work just fine.</P> <P>cheers, MuS</P> Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:38:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428859#M6269 MuS 2019-03-13T02:38:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428860#M6270 <P>@MuS Good answer, I hope I can recommend your answer, because you write a comment, I can not recommend your answer.</P> Wed, 13 Mar 2019 07:17:46 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428860#M6270 bestSplunker 2019-03-13T07:17:46Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428861#M6271 <P>Converted to answer <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span> </P> <P>cheers, MuS</P> Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:48:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Using-python-external-lookup-An-error-occurs-when-requesting-an/m-p/428861#M6271 MuS 2019-03-13T18:48:27Z