http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10667960/python-requests-throwing-up-sslerror ?
This error is expected if the Beaker server's SSL cert is signed by a CA not trusted by requests. The requests package in Fedora (and eng-rhel-6) has been patched to check CA certs from the system-wide trust store in /etc/pki/tls/certs/.
Looking closer, it seems requests will only load CA certificates from /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt, it *won't* do the OpenSSL hashed directory lookup in /etc/pki/tls/certs/ so just adding a custom certificate there will not work. So it will work if you append the custom certificate to /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt but it may not be reasonable to require people to do that. Incidentally Fedora 19 has a solution to this [1] but that doesn't help us on RHEL6. We should probably add an option in the client config to point at a particular CA certificate rather than the system default one. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SharedSystemCertificates
On Gerrit: http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/2278
Beaker 0.15 has been released.