google-api-python-client: SSLEOFError: EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:590)

After installing this package on python 2.7.10 and using Google Admin API I get tons of these errors in an intermittent fashion:

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/util.py", line 135, in positional_wrapper
    return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/googleapiclient/http.py", line 827, in execute
    method=str(self.method), body=self.body, headers=self.headers)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/googleapiclient/http.py", line 167, in _retry_request
    raise exception
SSLEOFError: EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:590)

I’m using Ubuntu 14.04:

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014


ubuntu@tests:~$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Sep  7 2015, 14:45:00) 
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ssl
>>> ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION
'OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014'

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Comments: 34 (17 by maintainers)

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Could not connect with BigQuery server due to: SSLEOFError (e.g. u'EOF encored in vibration of protocol (_ssl.c:727")

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@jonparrott As the problem arrives from the use of this library it would be good to have some way to inform the developers that this error can be erroneously reported by Google servers in high concurrency scenarios.

carlopires on Jul 28, 2016

@dhermes I’m doing this right now… I just wanted to make sure it is not related to Ubuntu OpenSSL version.

carlopires on Jul 21, 2016

@jonparrott I did it for httplib2: one HTTP client generated per request. And the error happens anyway.

carlopires on Jul 21, 2016

It’s probably very likely that this library is sneakily using httplib2 without you noticing. You can try using httplib2shim and see if that fixes things, but the simplest thing to do is just construct a new client for every thread/greenlet/etc.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, 9:53 AM Carlo Pires notifications@github.com wrote:

@dhermes https://github.com/dhermes I checked this… the error happens with requests generated by python requests[security] as well.

What make this hard to debug is because it is intermittent. Sometimes happens, some not. I’ll try to confirm if it is related to concurrency use.

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theacodes on Jul 21, 2016

@daspecster I’ll never complain about you accidentally helping me out here. 😃

@carlopires this is usually the most likely culprit when it comes to exceptions deep in the stack like this. If it’s not, then the next most likely culprit is that your openssl version is out of date. I would recommend updating openssl as a first step.

theacodes on Jul 21, 2016

(closing for now, feel free to continue to comment. we can re-open if needed)

theacodes on Jul 21, 2016