4.3 breaks the python api searches

[tven]

We have a python script that calls the splunk api on saved searches and writes data back to a file.

With the 4.3 upgrade from 4.2 i get this error. Anyone know what this error is referring to? I know it has to do with certificates, but what went wrong?

No handlers could be found for logger "splunk.clilib.cli_common"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/appsmon/splunk/saved_search/tbb/exceptions/saved_search.py", line 216, in <module>
    headers={}, body=urllib.urlencode({'username':username, 'password':password}))[1]
  File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1419, in request
    (response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
  File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1171, in _request
    (response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers)
  File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1122, in _conn_request
    conn.connect()
  File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 890, in connect
    self.disable_ssl_certificate_validation, self.ca_certs)
  File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 76, in _ssl_wrap_socket
    cert_reqs=cert_reqs, ca_certs=ca_certs)
  File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 374, in wrap_socket
    ciphers=ciphers)
  File "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 134, in __init__
    ciphers)
ssl.SSLError: [Errno 185090050] _ssl.c:341: error:0B084002:x509 certificate routines:X509_load_cert_crl_file:system lib

[LukeMurphey · Accepted solution]

Try disabling SSL certificate checking in your httplib2 calls by setting disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True:

h = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True)
# Instead of calling just httplib2.Http()

Splunk 4.3 ships with a newer version of the httplib2 Python Module, which enables certificate validation by default. Setting disable_ssl_certificate_validation to True makes httplib2 act like it did in Splunk 4.2.