download failure washingtonpost.com

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error downloading. ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure>

If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, 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 https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/sponsored-video/berlin-station-premieres-october-16th-on-epix-at-9-pm-etpt/2016/09/15/c2473e00-7ae1-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb_video.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/sponsored-video/berlin-station-premieres-october-16th-on-epix-at-9-pm-etpt/2016/09/15/c2473e00-7ae1-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb_video.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.10.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Darwin-16.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-74581-g1bbb5ea-tessus, ffprobe N-74581-g1bbb5ea-tessus
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[washingtonpost] c2473e00-7ae1-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb: Downloading JSON metadata
[washingtonpost] c2473e00-7ae1-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure>
[washingtonpost] c2473e00-7ae1-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure>
[washingtonpost] c2473e00-7ae1-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure>
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://videos.posttv.com/washpost-production/TWP/20160915/57d9f5f2e4b0fb838dc932e1/57d9f60de4b030287c57aee2_1439411933958-zgatlb_t_1473902297871_1920_1080_5400.mp4'
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/slewak/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1699, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/Users/slewak/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1641, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/Users/slewak/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 354, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/Users/slewak/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 61, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/Users/slewak/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/Users/slewak/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1034, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure>

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Explanation of your issue in arbitrary form goes here. Please make sure the description is worded well enough to be understood. Attempting to download from washingtonpost tv:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/sponsored-video/berlin-station-premieres-october-16th-on-epix-at-9-pm-etpt/2016/09/15/c2473e00-7ae1-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb_video.html

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Washington Post sites now require a feature called SNI (Server Name Indication), which is available in Python > 2.7.9 only, and you're using 2.7.8. Please upgrade your Python.