'certificate verify failed' since today

[sgk]

Yotta does not work since today. It worked fine yesterday. What happened to my environment or the server? The error is as follows:

error: connection error: ("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'ssl3_get_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')],)",)

My environment is yotta-0.17.2 and Python 2.7.12 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

[thegecko]

Thanks @sgk,

It seems an SSL certificate has expired, please bear with us while we get it renewed.

[sgk]

Oh, I see. Thank you for keeping the system up and running.

[fred260571]

Maybe you should have an unsafe option ie yotta unsafe target bbc-microbit-classic-gcc that will allow users NOT to use SSL What about a simple md5sum check ? All I need is to install an IDE/compiler to program my BBC microbit I tried in vain for 8 hours yesterday , needless to say that I was/am pretty upset This is the last time I use an mbed/yotta project My next project will use an Arduino Anyway thanks for your hard work

[autopulated]

If you want to quickly hack around this, you could add something like this after the line that imports the request module in yotta/lib/registry_access.py:

import requests

_old_get = requests.get
def newGet(*args, **kwargs):
    kwargs['verify'] = False
    return _old_get(*args, **kwargs)
requests.get = newGet

(untested, but you get the idea)

The SSL is there for good reason though – without it if you were using yotta on an open wifi network then anyone else would be able to intercept your requests to the registry and insert malicious responses.

[thegecko]

Thanks for your patience with this issue. We believe we have fixed it, but I'll keep it open for a day or so just in case. Apologies on the untimely resolution, there was an issue with our hosting provider.