Option buy orders erroring out with Max retries exceeded with url

[skumar7777]

For every order through r.order_buy_option_limit, the resulting error code is

HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.robinhood.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /instruments/?symbol=QQQ (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: DECRYPTION_FAILED_OR_BAD_RECORD_MAC] decryption failed or bad record mac (_ssl.c:2548)')))

Checked code repeatedly, there is no retries of /instruments/?symbol=QQQ

Order submission works correctly in python shell. I have pip installed 3.0.1

[skumar7777]

I have updated requests to 2.31. Immediately after the r.order_buy_option_limit call, other calls like r.get_all_option_orders() work correctly.

def place_order(tran_type, symbol, expiry, strike, option_type, price, qty):
    print("place_order", tran_type, symbol, expiry, strike, option_type, price, qty)
    try:
        if tran_type == 'buy':
            print("Sending order to Robinhood...", r.__path__) # PATH IS CORRECT
            ordData = r.order_buy_option_limit("open", "debit", price, symbol, qty, expiry, strike, option_type, "gtc") # FAILS
                        # I tried putting in a print as first statement in the def order_buy_option_limit under orders.py, does not print
            print("RH Order submitted...")
        else:
            ordData = r.order_sell_option_limit("close", "credit", price, symbol, qty, expiry, strike, option_type, "gtc")
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
        allOrds = r.get_all_option_orders()
        print(allOrds)                                    # WORKS CORRECTLY!
        return None
    return ordData

In orders.py,

@login_required
def order_buy_option_limit(positionEffect, creditOrDebit, price, symbol, quantity, expirationDate, strike, optionType='both', timeInForce='gtc', account_number=None, jsonify=True):
    """ Removed code comments for ease of reading, below print does not PRINT! 
    print("In r.order_buy_option_limit", load_account_profile(account_number=account_number, info='url'))
    try:
        symbol = symbol.upper().strip()
    except AttributeError as message:
        print(message, file=get_output())
        return None
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[skumar7777]

Only thing I can see is that the calls occur from another thread than the one opening the robinhood connection. Can it make a difference?