Question: Im using Python 2.7.3 and Requests. I installed Requests via pip. I believe it's the latest version. I'm running on Debian Wheezy.

I've used Requests lots of times in the past and never faced this issue, but it seems that when making https requests with `Requests` I get an `InsecurePlatform` exception.

The error mentions `urllib3`, but I don't have that installed. I did install it to check if it resolved the error, but it didn't.

```
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3
/util/ssl_.py:79: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not
available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and 
may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see 
https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest  
/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.

```

Any ideas as to why I'm getting this? I've checked the docs, as specified in the error message, but the docs are saying to import urllib3 and either disable the warning, or provide a certificate.

Answer: 
This answer is unrelated, but if you wanted to **get rid of warning** and get following warning from requests:

`InsecurePlatformWarning
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:79: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.`

You can **disable** it by adding the following line to your python code:

`requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()`
In my case working on an old ubuntu trusty image and trying to install python dateutil. I had first to upgrade python to 2.7.12 with the following:

```
add-apt-repository -y ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes-python2.7
apt-get -y update
apt install -y --force-yes python2.7-minimal
pip install python-dateutil

```