Some recordings not accessible (due to SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED)

[quickstep2]

Some recordings of Arte+7 are not accessible. Reason for this: SSL CERITFICATE_VERIFYFAILED error on read statement sock = urllib2.urlopen( req ) in mediathek\__init_\.py:77 In the error log this error is only reported as "No JSON object could be decoded" (see below).

Quick (and dirty) solution: switch off the verification by replacing the urlopen(...) statement with:

quickstep2 start

      #sock = urllib2.urlopen( req )
      import ssl
      gcontext = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)  # Only for gangstars
      sock = urllib2.urlopen(req, context=gcontext)
      # quickstep2 end

A better solution would be, to inform the user about the certificate problem, offering a dialog with \\/\ option.

Problemreport in kodi.log: 07:50:26.337 T:2276 DEBUG: [Mediathek]: download https://api.arte.tv/api/player/v1/config/de/064384-007-A 32 07:50:26.488 T:2276 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--

• NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS! Error Type: <type 'exceptions.ValueError'> Error Contents: No JSON object could be decoded Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\quickstep2\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.mediathek\default.py", line 104, in mediathek.playVideoFromJsonLink(link); File "C:\Users\quickstep2\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.mediathek\mediathek\arte.py", line 210, in playVideoFromJsonLink jsonObject = json.loads(self.loadPage(link)); File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\json__init__.py", line 339, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\json\decoder.py", line 364, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\json\decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded") ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded -->End of Python script error report<--

[raptor2101]

should be solved by moving to requests