Python HTTPS / SSL错误：1407742E：SSL例程：SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO：tlsv1警报协议版本

我正在尝试使用CentOS 6.5中的python建立与REST API的简单HTTPS连接。安装的是python-2.6.6-52.el6.x86_64和openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7.x86_64。

#!/usr/bin/env python

import httplib, json, urllib, urllib2

# Gets the session ID to host
c = httplib.HTTPSConnection("10.10.1.1")
c.request("GET", "/services/rest/V2/?method=authenticate&username=myusername&password=mypasswd&format=json")
response = c.getresponse()
data = json.loads(response.read())
session_id = data['session_id']

print "Session Created. Session ID: " + session_id

但是，它给了我这个错误：

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./test3.py", line 7, in 
    c.request("GET", "/services/rest/V2/?method=authenticate&username=myusername&password=mypasswd&format=json")
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 914, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 951, in _send_request
    self.endheaders()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 908, in endheaders
    self._send_output()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 780, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 739, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 1116, in connect
    self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ssl.py", line 342, in wrap_socket
    suppress_ragged_eofs=suppress_ragged_eofs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ssl.py", line 120, in __init__
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ssl.py", line 279, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:492: error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version

这是一个openssl / python兼容性问题吗？我已经找到了最新的python和openssl RPM，并且我不愿意通过手动编译最新的tarball放弃RPM保留。