Cannot download https-connection-base content on Debian 7

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

youtube-dl -v -o '2 - Test.mp4' 'http://vivo.sx/3a9cbfb374' 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-o', u'2 - Test.mp4', u'http://vivo.sx/3a9cbfb374']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.19
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.11
[debug] exe versions: avconv 0.8.17-6, avprobe 0.8.17-6, ffmpeg 0.8.17-6, ffprobe 0.8.17-6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Shared] 3a9cbfb374: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:14077438:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert internal error> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '_ssl.c:504: error:14077438:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert internal error'),))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 402, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 520, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 439, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 379, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 626, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 401, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 419, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 379, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1011, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1181, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

When I try to download videos over pages that require SSL/HTTPS, I always receive the message shown in the log-files above.

I tried recompiling openssl, but it did not work. Then I reinstalled python and python-dev, but nothing changed the result.

I got this on several machines on all kinds of webpages that require HTTPS and I cannot think of a fix for this.

[dstftw]

Update python.