From 16dcdedc8a74967d5cafb466cc2f1af04b617458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:24:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] As of version 2.7.9, urllib2 now checks SSL certs

---
 register_new_matrix_user | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/register_new_matrix_user b/register_new_matrix_user
index daddadc30..974dfd398 100755
--- a/register_new_matrix_user
+++ b/register_new_matrix_user
@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ def request_registration(user, password, server_location, shared_secret):
         headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
     )
     try:
-        f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+        if sys.version_info[:3] >= (2, 7, 9):
+            # As of version 2.7.9, urllib2 now checks SSL certs
+            import ssl
+            f = urllib2.urlopen(req, ctx=ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23))
+        else:
+            f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
         f.read()
         f.close()
         print "Success."