fix.py

import httplib
import ssl
import socket
import sys
import urllib2

class HTTPSConnectionV3(httplib.HTTPSConnection):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        httplib.HTTPSConnection.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

    def connect(self):
        sock = socket.create_connection((self.host, self.port), self.timeout)
        if sys.version_info < (2, 6, 7):
            if hasattr(self, '_tunnel_host'):
                self.sock = sock
                self._tunnel()
        else:
            if self._tunnel_host:
                self.sock = sock
                self._tunnel()
        try:
            self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3)
        except ssl.SSLError:
            self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)


class HTTPSHandlerV3(urllib2.HTTPSHandler):
    def https_open(self, req):
        return self.do_open(HTTPSConnectionV3, req)

usage.py

urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(HTTPSHandlerV3()))
urllib2.urlopen("https://yoursecureurl.com/")