René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Don't use SSLv3","articleBody":"We have recently disabled support for SSLv3 at GitHub, as it is a very old version of the SSL protocol that is now also known to be vulnerable:\n\nhttp://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/this-poodle-bites-exploiting-ssl-30.html\nhttps://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/10/14/poodle.html\n\nWe have had several reports from GitHub users using the Pygithub3 library, complaining of failing requests due to the use of SSLv3 in the library. Here's an example traceback that has been reported:\n\n```\nTraceback (most recent call last):\nFile \"\u003cstdin\u003e\", line 1, in \u003cmodule\u003e\nFile \"/Users/ray/virtualenv/pygh3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygithub3/services/users/__init__.py\", line 36, in get\nreturn self._get(request)\nFile \"/Users/ray/virtualenv/pygh3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygithub3/services/base.py\", line 142, in _get\nresponse = self._client.get(request, **kwargs)\nFile \"/Users/ray/virtualenv/pygh3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygithub3/core/client.py\", line 83, in get\nresponse = self.request('get', request, **kwargs)\nFile \"/Users/ray/virtualenv/pygh3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygithub3/core/client.py\", line 70, in wrapper\nreturn func(self, verb, request, **kwargs)\nFile \"/Users/ray/virtualenv/pygh3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygithub3/core/client.py\", line 76, in request\nresponse = self.requester.request(verb, request, **kwargs)\nFile \"/Users/ray/virtualenv/pygh3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py\", line 252, in request\nr.send(prefetch=prefetch)\nFile \"/Users/ray/virtualenv/pygh3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py\", line 632, in send\nraise SSLError(e)\nrequests.exceptions.SSLError: [Errno 8] _ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol\n```\n\n/cc @copitux\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jdennes","@type":"Person","name":"jdennes"},"datePublished":"2014-10-17T17:03:57.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/39/python-github3/issues/39"}