NHL fails when behind firewall "urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure"

[RingoTheDog]

If I attempt to download from the URL:
https://www.nhl.com/lightning/video/jon-cooper-pc-041216/t-277437434/c-43457803
when NOT behind a firewall it works correctly.

However if I attempt the same URL from behind a firewall it is blocked (yes I can I view the video in a browser from behind firewall)

youtube-dl.py -U "https://www.nhl.com/lightning/video/jon-cooper-pc-041216/t-277437434/c-43457803"
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2016.04.24)
[nhl.com] 43457803: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '_ssl.c:
504: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure'),))

same error as #5366
maybe?

Thanks
Ringo

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UPDATE: The URL sometimes works from behind firewall when running under Python 3.x (fails with 2.x)

<urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY
_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:645)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1,
'[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:645)'),))

C:\Transmogrifier>youtube-dl.py -v https://www.nhl.com/lightning/video/jon-coope
r-pc-041216/t-277437434/c-43457803
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.nhl.com/lightning/video/jon-coope
r-pc-041216/t-277437434/c-43457803']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.04.24
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Windows-2008ServerR2-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-71727-g46778ab, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[nhl.com] 43457803: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY
_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:645)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1,
'[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:645)'),))
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 38
8, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1942, in
urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 465, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 483, in _open
'_open', req)
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 443, in _call_cha
in
result = func(_args)
File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 859, in https
_open
req, *_kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1242, in do_open
raise URLError(err)