SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

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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 --no-check-certificate https://news.vice.com/video/jeremy-corbyn-the-outsider --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--no-check-certificate', u'https://news.vice.com/video/jeremy-corbyn-the-outsider', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.06.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.19.0-32-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-17.3-rosa
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-80026-g936751b, ffprobe N-80026-g936751b, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Vice] jeremy-corbyn-the-outsider: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '_ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure'),))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 388, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1946, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  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/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 939, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Hi,
I'm having trouble downloading from Vice, due to an SSL error.

This happens even if I use the --no-check-certificate switch and also with the http web address.

[yan12125]

news.vice.com requires an SSL feature called Server Name Indiciation (SNI), which is not supported until Python 2.7.9. Please update your Python.

[reggna]

Thanks, @yan12125! I had the same problem on viafree.se, and using the Python 3 version instead solved it.