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Using the latest calibre (2.19.0) on Fedora 21 (official release, not distro package), the NYTimes recipe is failing to fetch with an SSL error. The debug log is below.

Recent SSL + python related bugs in other apps were fixed by installed the python-service-identity package (or service_identity on pypi), but this doesn't seem to be related.

Verifying the domain manually works with openssl works fine:

$ openssl s_client -connect myaccount.nytimes.com:443
<snip>
 Verify return code: 0 (ok)

I noticed the recipe source code uses http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login as the login url which redirects to https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login, but when i edited the recipe to use that url, the SSL error persists.

calibre, version 2.19.0 (linux2, isfrozen: True)
Conversion Error: Failed: Fetch news from New York Times

Fetch news from New York Times
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.19.0
{'asciiize': False,
 'author_sort': None,
 'authors': None,
 'base_font_size': 0,
 'book_producer': None,
 'change_justification': 'original',
 'chapter': None,
 'chapter_mark': 'pagebreak',
 'comments': None,
 'cover': None,
 'debug_pipeline': None,
 'dehyphenate': True,
 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
 'disable_font_rescaling': False,
 'dont_compress': False,
 'dont_download_recipe': False,
 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
 'embed_all_fonts': False,
 'embed_font_family': None,
 'enable_heuristics': False,
 'expand_css': False,
 'extra_css': None,
 'extract_to': None,
 'filter_css': None,
 'fix_indents': True,
 'font_size_mapping': None,
 'format_scene_breaks': True,
 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
 'input_encoding': None,
 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x7f3fdbec1c50>,
 'insert_blank_line': False,
 'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
 'insert_metadata': False,
 'isbn': None,
 'italicize_common_cases': True,
 'keep_ligatures': False,
 'language': None,
 'level1_toc': None,
 'level2_toc': None,
 'level3_toc': None,
 'line_height': 0,
 'linearize_tables': False,
 'lrf': False,
 'margin_bottom': 5.0,
 'margin_left': 5.0,
 'margin_right': 5.0,
 'margin_top': 5.0,
 'markup_chapter_headings': True,
 'max_toc_links': 50,
 'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
 'mobi_file_type': 'old',
 'mobi_ignore_margins': False,
 'mobi_keep_original_images': False,
 'mobi_toc_at_start': False,
 'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
 'no_inline_navbars': True,
 'no_inline_toc': False,
 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindlePaperWhiteOutput object at 0x7f3fdbec63d0>,
 'page_breaks_before': None,
 'personal_doc': '[PDOC]',
 'prefer_author_sort': False,
 'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
 'pretty_print': False,
 'pubdate': None,
 'publisher': None,
 'rating': None,
 'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
 'remove_fake_margins': True,
 'remove_first_image': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
 'renumber_headings': True,
 'replace_scene_breaks': '',
 'search_replace': None,
 'series': None,
 'series_index': None,
 'share_not_sync': False,
 'smarten_punctuation': False,
 'sr1_replace': '',
 'sr1_search': '',
 'sr2_replace': '',
 'sr2_search': '',
 'sr3_replace': '',
 'sr3_search': '',
 'start_reading_at': None,
 'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
 'tags': None,
 'test': False,
 'timestamp': None,
 'title': None,
 'title_sort': None,
 'toc_filter': None,
 'toc_threshold': 6,
 'toc_title': None,
 'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
 'unwrap_lines': True,
 'use_auto_toc': False,
 'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Using custom recipe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site.py", line 51, in main
  File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 193, in main
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1041, in run
  File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 241, in __call__
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 116, in convert
  File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 887, in __init__
  File "<string>", line 391, in get_browser
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 203, in open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 204, in open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 457, in http_response
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 221, in error
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 571, in http_error_302
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 203, in open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 193, in open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 344, in _open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1170, in https_open
  File "site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1118, in do_open
URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)>