Python 2.7.9 change broke urllib3 on platforms where the OpenSSL library has SNI disabled

[mjpieters]

This is not a bug in pip, but I'm reporting it here as someone using pip on Python 2.7.9 with an OpenSSL version that does not have SNI enabled is likely to see this traceback when encountering this issue:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 232, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 339, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 333, in prepare_files
    upgrade=self.upgrade,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 305, in find_requirement
    page = self._get_page(main_index_url, req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 783, in _get_page
    return HTMLPage.get_page(link, req, session=self.session)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 872, in get_page
    "Cache-Control": "max-age=600",
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 473, in get
    return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/download.py", line 365, in request
    return super(PipSession, self).request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 461, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 573, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/adapter.py", line 43, in send
    resp = super(CacheControlAdapter, self).send(request, **kw)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/requests/adapters.py", line 370, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 518, in urlopen
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 322, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 727, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 238, in connect
    ssl_version=resolved_ssl_version)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-6.0.7-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 254, in ssl_wrap_socket
    return context.wrap_socket(sock)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 350, in wrap_socket
    _context=self)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 537, in __init__
    raise ValueError("check_hostname requires server_hostname")
ValueError: check_hostname requires server_hostname

This is an issue with urllib3, see urllib3/urllib3#543, also noted at kennethreitz/requests#2435.

By placing this here the pip project has a place to track status on this and redirect people that encounter the problem.

[Yasumoto]

Yep, I've bumped into this as well. I nudged urllib3/urllib3#526 to get a release going, which we can then upgrade to.

[Gillingham]

kennethreitz/requests#2444 has been merged and new version(s) released, any chance for an update here shortly?