# Robotframework RequestsLibrary SSLV3\_ALERT\_HANDSHAKE\_FAILURE

**URL:** <https://forum.robotframework.org/t/robotframework-requestslibrary-sslv3-alert-handshake-failure/5812>\
**Category:** RequestsLibrary\
**Created:** [12 June 2023 11:13 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/robotframework-requestslibrary-sslv3-alert-handshake-failure/5812 "2023-06-12T11:13:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [12 June 2023 11:13 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/robotframework-requestslibrary-sslv3-alert-handshake-failure/5812/1 "2023-06-12T11:13:09Z")

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While executing Post requests using the RequestsLibrary, getting below error

SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: SSLV3\_ALERT\_HANDSHAKE\_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure.

- Postman and Curl is working perfectly fine and giving the expected response
- The same robot file is working fine on other user machines as well.

This behavior is observed only on my user machine. Tried below options, but didn’t work any.

- Configurations on my machine and other user machine where its working are the same.
- Tried downloading .pem certificate for the base url and provided using `client_certs` path. Ref: [How to get Python requests to trust a self signed SSL certificate? - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30405867/how-to-get-python-requests-to-trust-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate)
- Clean installed python 3.10.10 version and freshly installed PyCharm

Please suggest what could be done to ensure the same code base for RequestsLibrary working on all machines.