To solve 'EOF occurred in violation of protocol' error when using the python requests module

ssl_adapter.py

from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
from requests.packages.urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager
import ssl


class MyAdapter(HTTPAdapter):
    """Create http adapter that uses TLSv1 protocol."""

    def init_poolmanager(self, connections, maxsize, block=False):
        self.poolmanager = PoolManager(num_pools=connections,
                                       maxsize=maxsize,
                                       block=block,
                                       ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)


# usage
s = requests.Session()
s.mount('https://', MyAdapter())
res = s.request('GET', url, headers=headers)
# do stuff with response

# read
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14102416/python-requests-requests-exceptions-sslerror-errno-8-ssl-c504-eof-occurred