requests.exceptions.SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

19 Jul 2013 This happens with the Requests library in python. All you need to do is set verify=false.

For example:
cookieRequest = s.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload).strip('"'), allow_redirects=False, headers=headers, verify=False)