s3cmd SSL connection error

Problem Statement

 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1263, in connect
    server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 363, in wrap_socket
    _context=self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 611, in __init__
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 840, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
error: [Errno 0] Error

Environement

• Debian 9
• s3cmd 2.0.1

Solution

The problem happens due to SSL issue. To make s3cmd work, we should invoke it without SSL (–nossl) as following.

s3cmd --no-ssl get --access_key=5DTA7J1ORIQ3E7LMV9YD 
--secret_key=GIqPAez7zdHSC9r3HsMNOgJlHqHttvGi
 --host=10.xx.xx.xxx:80 --host-bucket=10.xx.xx.xx:80
 s3://TESTBUCKET/abc.tgz

References

• https://sourceforge.net/p/s3tools/mailman/message/34389949/