SSL3 Certificate Verify Failed when Connecting to JIRA API Using Python

Question

I'm currently running into an error when attempting to connect to JIRA using Python2.7 and the JIRA REST API (http://jira-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).

When I execute the following:

from jira.client import JIRA

options = {
    'server': 'https://jira.companyname.com'
}
jira = JIRA(options)

I get the following error message in console:

requests.exceptions.SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:507: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

Is there something that I may have missed or am doing incorrectly?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I encountered a similar SSL certificate verification error and looking through the "JIRA" methods definitions, its possible to turn off the verification.

    :param options: Specify the server and properties this client will use. Use a dict with any
     of the following properties:
      * server -- the server address and context path to use. Defaults to ``http://localhost:2990/jira``.
      * rest_path -- the root REST path to use. Defaults to ``api``, where the JIRA REST resources live.
      * rest_api_version -- the version of the REST resources under rest_path to use. Defaults to ``2``.
      * verify -- Verify SSL certs. Defaults to ``True``.
      * resilient -- If it should just retry recoverable errors. Defaults to `False`.

Try this :

from jira.client import JIRA

options = {'server': 'https://jira.companyname.com','verify':False}
jira = JIRA(options)