ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:997)

[prasathkjs]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 704, in urlopen
httplib_response = self._make_request(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 387, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 1043, in validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 414, in connect
self.sock = ssl_wrap_socket(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/ssl.py", line 449, in ssl_wrap_socket
ssl_sock = ssl_wrap_socket_impl(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/ssl.py", line 493, in _ssl_wrap_socket_impl
return ssl_context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 512, in wrap_socket
return self.sslsocket_class._create(
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 1070, in _create
self.do_handshake()
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 1341, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:997)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 440, in send
resp = conn.urlopen(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 786, in urlopen
retries = retries.increment(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 592, in increment
raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.linkedin.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /uas/login?trk=guest_homepage-basic_nav-header-signin (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:997)')))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/kali/LinkedInt/LinkedInt.py", line 323, in authenticate
a = login()
File "/home/kali/LinkedInt/LinkedInt.py", line 52, in login
rv = s.get(URL + '/uas/login?trk=guest_homepage-basic_nav-header-signin')
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 542, in get
return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 529, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 645, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 517, in send
raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.linkedin.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /uas/login?trk=guest_homepage-basic_nav-header-signin (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:997)')))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/kali/LinkedInt/LinkedInt.py", line 429, in
cookies = authenticate()
File "/home/kali/LinkedInt/LinkedInt.py", line 330, in authenticate
sys.exit("[!] Could not authenticate to linkedin. %s" % e)
NameError: name 'e' is not defined. Did you mean: 're'?

[ganesh2405]

Hey Did you find solution for this? I am facing same issue