test.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import httplib
import urllib2

import requests


def trace(s, *n):
    print(str(s) % n)


def test_tls():
    url = "https://www.emulate.io"
    url = "https://tls1test.salesforce.com"

    trace("Trying urllib2")
    urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

    trace("Trying httplib")
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("www.emulate.io", strict=True)
    conn.request("GET", "/")
    resp = conn.getresponse()
    print(resp.read())

    trace("Trying requests")
    requests.get(url, verify=True)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    test_tls()