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I am working with Python2.7 and I need to access a certain API (Nuagen): https://nuagenetworks.github.io/vsd-api-documentation/usage.html

In the documentation, they say the following:

Getting the API key. To obtain and API key, the first step is to make a /me API call. This API call returns information about the account being used.

    GET /me HTTP/1.1
    X-Nuage-Organization: my company
    Content-Type: application/json
    Authorization: $AUTHORIZATION_STRING
  
The authorization string for the /me API MUST be formatted like the following:
    $AUTHORIZATION_STRING = Basic base64($LOGIN:$PASSWORD)
So I try to build my requests in the folowing way;
import requests
url = 'https://an.ip.add.ress:8443/nuage/api/v4_0/me'
user = 'myuser'
passw = 'mypass'
cps = 'myorganization'
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Basic d29jdTpjdXdv",
    "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "X-Nuage-Organization": "csp",
response = requests.get(url, auth=(user, passw), headers=headers)
# Also tried with:
# response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
However, I'm always getting this error:
requests.exceptions.SSLError: bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE', 'certificate verify failed')],)
Any idea on how to access this API with Python requests? Or any other way?
                I really don't know. Is there any way I could find out? But I can access the server via web browser and browse through its pages.
– Xar
                Oct 4, 2017 at 9:34
        
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