ESPN SSL : CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED with Python Ver 3.x...but works correctly with Python Ver 2.x

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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.py -v http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:15788519
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:1578851
9']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.05.21.2
[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: {}
[ESPN] clip?id=espn:15788519: Downloading webpage
[ESPN] 15788519: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILE
D] 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 1946, 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 939, in https
_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1242, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

...

C:\>youtube-dl.py -v "http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:15788519"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:15788
519']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.05.21.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-71346-gdf4fca2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ESPN] clip?id=espn:15788519: Downloading webpage
[ESPN] 15788519: Downloading webpage
[OoyalaExternal] 15788519: Downloading JSON metadata
[OoyalaExternal] 15788519: Downloading mp4 JSON
[OoyalaExternal] 15788519: Downloading m3u8 JSON
[OoyalaExternal] 45Z29zMzE6UZpqEjI_xNXOYs47qA5J8p: Downloading m3u8 information
[OoyalaExternal] 15788519: Downloading hds JSON
[OoyalaExternal] 45Z29zMzE6UZpqEjI_xNXOYs47qA5J8p: Downloading f4m manifest
[OoyalaExternal] 15788519: Downloading rtmp JSON
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://media.video-cdn.espn.com/motion/2016/052
8/dm_160528_nba_donovan_kerr_on_game_6/hls/52_16594658_HBR.m3u8'
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 6
[download] Destination: Donovan, Kerr share team's mentalities going into Game 6
-45Z29zMzE6UZpqEjI_xNXOYs47qA5J8p.mp4
[download] 100% of 18.53MiB in 00:45
[ffmpeg] Fixing malformated aac bitstream in "Donovan, Kerr share team's mentali
ties going into Game 6-45Z29zMzE6UZpqEjI_xNXOYs47qA5J8p.mp4"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -i 'file:Donovan, Kerr share team'"'"'s m
entalities going into Game 6-45Z29zMzE6UZpqEjI_xNXOYs47qA5J8p.mp4' -c copy -f mp
4 -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc 'file:Donovan, Kerr share team'"'"'s mentalities going in
to Game 6-45Z29zMzE6UZpqEjI_xNXOYs47qA5J8p.temp.mp4'


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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

URL: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:15788519 works correctly under Python 2.7.11 however fails under Python 3.5.1

Thanks
Ringo
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