we actually avoid the requests lib for this and many other reasons, we don't use libcurl as we try to avoid extra dependencies when possible. The issue is more

we actually avoid the requests lib for this and many other reasons, we don't use libcurl as we try to avoid extra dependencies when possible. The issue is more basic than requests, the actual python http/url and ssl implementations have these issues, we have patched and added warnings to indicate which minimal python versions you can use and have SNI work.