I'm a begginer in Python and have been struggling with downloading a file using the package requests. My code works for an url with http, but not for https. The code is the following:
import requests
url = 'https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/active_fire/shapes/zips/Central_America_24h.zip'
print "downloading with requests"
r = requests.get(url)
with open("Central_America_24h.zip", "wb") as code:
code.write(r.content)
I get the following errors:
Warning (from warnings module):
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 90
InsecurePlatformWarning
InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\lmixco\Downloads\descarga.py", line 8, in <module>
r = requests.get(url)
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 68, in get
return request('get', url, **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 50, in request
response = session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 465, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 594, in send
history = [resp for resp in gen] if allow_redirects else []
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 196, in resolve_redirects
**adapter_kwargs
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 573, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 431, in send
raise SSLError(e, request=request)
SSLError: [Errno 8] _ssl.c:503: EOF occurred in violation of protocol
I have been looking for a solution, but have not found anything. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.