Github blocks download request for zip files!

[mostaphaRoudsari]

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/ladybug/forum/topics/fail-to-update-hb-and-lb

[mostaphaRoudsari]

I spent few hours today and tried to find a clean way to address this issue. My understanding is that urllib cannot make a secure connection to download the file. The issue is inside ssl.py. The solution should be here but I couldn't really get it to work: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jpsanders/archive/2009/01/07/you-receive-one-or-more-error-messages-when-you-try-to-make-an-http-request-in-an-application-that-is-built-on-the-net-framework-2-0.aspx

Here is very similar discussion: http://forums.asp.net/t/1622470.aspx?Error+Authentication+failed+because+the+remote+party+has+closed+the+transport+stream+

One alternative is to use browser to download the files, and the browser takes care of connection certificate but it will be really dirty! Maybe this is a great chance to send my first question ever to stackoverflow.

[mostaphaRoudsari]

Actually any https request fails, including downloading the files from dropbox link! Very strange.

import urllib

url = "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16228160/honeybee/versions.txt"
webFile = urllib.urlopen(url)
versions= eval(webFile.read())
webFile.close()

print versions

[mostaphaRoudsari]

Using ProxyHandler solves the issue but it includes some risk. I assume there should be a better way. I just leave this open for now.

import urllib2
proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http":"http://61.233.25.166:80"})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

[mostaphaRoudsari]

Turns out this is a bug in IronPython 2.7, replacing ssl.py with old version from 2.6 solves the problem.

[mostaphaRoudsari]

Not really! It didn't work for other users...