Unable to download Vimeo videos - urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:510

[tonyfernandos]

I am unable to download any video from Vimeo.
Youtube-dl was installed through the Ubuntu Software Center.
OS is Lubuntu 14.04, fresh install a few days ago.
YouTube videos work fine.
Here is the error shown ...

youtube-dl https://vimeo.com/120419055 --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://vimeo.com/120419055', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.16.0-31-generic-i686-athlon-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] 120419055: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:510: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 191, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1157, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 572, in https_open
return self.do_open(HTTPSConnectionV3, req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
raise URLError(err)

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