Ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1056)

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I am using Python 3.7.3 to run a GET request to a PHP file hosted on my website. However, when I run it I receive the error below. I have installed requests through pip3 on Homebrew. I am using macOS Mojave.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 600, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 343, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 839, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 344, in connect
ssl_context=context)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 344, in ssl_wrap_socket
return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 412, in wrap_socket
session=session
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 853, in _create
self.do_handshake()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 1117, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1056)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 449, in send
timeout=timeout
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 638, in urlopen
_stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 398, in increment
raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='ijetlab.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/api.php?one=1&two=2 (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1056)')))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/maxwellnewberry/Documents/test.py", line 12, in
r = requests.get(url = URL, params = PARAMS)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 75, in get
return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 60, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 533, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 646, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 514, in send
raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='ijetlab.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/api.php?one=1&two=2 (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1056)')))

Here is the code:

# importing the requests library 
import requests 

# api-endpoint 
URL = "https://ijetlab.com/api/api.php"


# defining a params dict for the parameters to be sent to the API 
PARAMS = {'one':1, 'two':2} 

# sending get request and saving the response as response object 
r = requests.get(url = URL, params = PARAMS) 

# extracting data in json format 
data = r.json()

print(data['response'])

All searches have told me to run 'Install Certificates.command', and I have – about 100 times. I have also made the customer install certificates as well.

Best Answer

TL;DR

The remote website seems to be the problem, not Python. There is likely no fix for this other than to fix the website.

Longer Explanation

The website/server your are dealing with is apparently configured incorrectly. This has nothing directly to do with Python. That said, you can ignore any certificate errors with e.g.:

r = requests.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS, verify=False)

or you can otherwise try to point Python at the missing certificates (as pointed out by @dave_thompson_085 in the comments).

However, this is unlikely to do any good as the server then apparently responds with a 500: Internal Server Error (verified with curl) and a Content-Length: 0, which would seem to indicate an error in the processing of api.php itself (i.e. there is no JSON to process anyway).

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