I have an little app I wrote in Python and it used to work... until yesterday, when it suddenly started giving me an error in a HTTPS connection. I don't remember if there was an update, but both Python 2.7.3rc2 and Python 3.2 are failing just the same.

I googled it and found out that this happens when people are behind a proxy, but I'm not (and nothing have changed in my network since the last time it worked). My syster's computer running windows and Python 2.7.2 has no problems (in the same network).

>>> url = 'https://www.mediafire.com/api/user/get_session_token.php'

>>> response = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen

    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 400, in open

    response = self._open(req, data)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 418, in _open

    '_open', req)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain

    result = func(*args)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1215, in https_open

    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1177, in do_open

    raise URLError(err)

urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>

What's wrong? Any help is appreciated.

PS.: Older python versions don't work either, not in my system and not in a live session from USB, but DO work in a Ubuntu 11.10 live session.