Python Requests throwing SSLError

Here's a code snippet that demonstrates how to use the Python requests library to make a GET request to a URL, while handling a possible SSLError:

import requests
from requests.exceptions import SSLError

url = "https://example.com"

try:
    response = requests.get(url)
    # Do something with the response
    print(response.content)
except SSLError as e:
    print("An SSL error occurred:", e)
except Exception as e:
    print("An error occurred:", e)

In this example, the requests.get(url) method is used to make a GET request to the specified URL. If an SSLError is raised, the code in the except SSLError block will be executed and it will print the error message.

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It is also common to use requests.get(url, verify=False) instead, this would ignore the ssl certification error but it should be used only in development and testing, not in production.