title: macOS Sierra/Python2.7.13 URLError: <urlopen error EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:661)>
body: <p>I have been searching/trying everything I could find on Stack Overflow, but no joy. I am new to Python, so I apologize now for my ignorance, but very eager/excited to learn.</p>
  
  <pre><code>macOS Sierra v10.12.5 (early 2011)
  Python v2.7.13
  urllib==1.21.1
  urllib2==1498656401.94
  urllib3==1.21.1
  Homebrew installed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the error I am receiving:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Python 2.7.13 (v2.7.13:a06454b1afa1, Dec 17 2016, 12:39:47) 
  [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
  Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
  &gt;&gt;&gt; 
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File 
  "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", 
  l    ine 154, in urlopen
      return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
    File 
  "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", 
  line 429, in open
      response = self._open(req, data)
    File 
  "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", 
  line 447, in _open
      '_open', req)
    File 
  "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", 
  line 407, in _call_chain
      result = func(*args)
    File 
  "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", 
  line 1241, in https_open
      context=self._context)
    File 
  "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", 
  line 1198, in do_open
      raise URLError(err)
  URLError: &lt;urlopen error EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:661)&gt;
  &gt;&gt;&gt;
  </code></pre>