Connecting to softlayer object storage using apache libcloud - ibm-cloud

Question

Problem:
Trying to connect to Softlayer Swift Object Storage using apache libcloud and I can't get it to work. I have tried passing in different options to the provider but no matter what I pass in I get the same error. I would appreciate any and all pointers to help me resolve this issue.
Code:
from pprint import pprint
from libcloud.storage.types import Provider
from libcloud.storage.providers import get_driver
_swift = get_driver(Provider.OPENSTACK_SWIFT)
_authurl = "https://lon02.objectstorage.softlayer.net/auth/v1.0"
_user = "IBMOS<redacted>"
_key = "redacted"
driver = _swift(_user, _key,
region='lon02',
ex_force_auth_url=_authurl,
ex_force_auth_version='1.0',
ex_force_service_type='object-store',
ex_force_service_name='cloudFiles')
#pprint(driver.__dict__)
pprint(driver.list_containers())
Stack Trace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py", line 441, in wrap_socket
cnx.do_handshake()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/OpenSSL/SSL.py", line 1806, in do_handshake
self._raise_ssl_error(self._ssl, result)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/OpenSSL/SSL.py", line 1539, in _raise_ssl_error
raise SysCallError(-1, "Unexpected EOF")
OpenSSL.SSL.SysCallError: (-1, 'Unexpected EOF')
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 601, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 346, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 850, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 326, in connect
ssl_context=context)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 329, in ssl_wrap_socket
return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py", line 448, in wrap_socket
raise ssl.SSLError('bad handshake: %r' % e)
ssl.SSLError: ("bad handshake: SysCallError(-1, 'Unexpected EOF')",)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 440, in send
timeout=timeout
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 639, in urlopen
_stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 388, in increment
raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='lon02.objectstorage.softlayer.net', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /auth/v1.0 (Caused by SSLError(SSLError("bad handshake: SysCallError(-1, 'Unexpected EOF')",),))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "swift.py", line 19, in <module>
pprint(driver.list_containers())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libcloud/storage/base.py", line 209, in list_containers
return list(self.iterate_containers())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libcloud/storage/drivers/cloudfiles.py", line 275, in iterate_containers
response = self.connection.request('')
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libcloud/storage/drivers/cloudfiles.py", line 165, in request
raw=raw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libcloud/common/openstack.py", line 223, in request
raw=raw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libcloud/common/base.py", line 536, in request
action = self.morph_action_hook(action)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libcloud/common/openstack.py", line 290, in morph_action_hook
self._populate_hosts_and_request_paths()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libcloud/common/openstack.py", line 324, in _populate_hosts_and_request_paths
osa = osa.authenticate(**kwargs) # may throw InvalidCreds
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libcloud/common/openstack_identity.py", line 761, in authenticate
resp = self.request('/v1.0', headers=headers, method='GET')
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libcloud/common/base.py", line 603, in request
headers=headers, stream=stream)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libcloud/http.py", line 213, in request
verify=self.verification
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 508, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 618, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 506, in send
raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='lon02.objectstorage.softlayer.net', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /auth/v1.0 (Caused by SSLError(SSLError("bad handshake: SysCallError(-1, 'Unexpected EOF')",),))

Answer 1

To answer my own question, the specific issue seen above was due to the system I was using. Once I switched to another system it proceeded even further however there is a bug I identified and filed in apache libcloud with a documented workaround inside the jira ticket here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD-972.