django-social-auth - Missing HTTPSConnection

Question

I am pretty new to Django and trying to use django-social-auth in my Django project.

I followed the README that is very clear.

my settings.py

#...

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
#    'social_auth.backends.twitter.TwitterBackend',
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY         = 'xxxxxxxxx'
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET      = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

SOCIAL_AUTH_DEFAULT_USERNAME = 'user'
SOCIAL_AUTH_ASSOCIATE_BY_MAIL = True

INSTALLED_APPS = (
  #...
  'social_auth',
)

#...

If I activate the twitter backend and try to login the standard way, I get:

'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnection'

3 questions:

• Do I have to install SSL with Python ?
• How can I check if it's installed ?
• What is the best way to install it ?

Answer 1

To solve HTTPSConnection error you need to install openssl-devel package, libssl-dev for Ubuntu, and recompile Python.