kennethreitz/requests — pull request #900 by dandrzejewski (2012-10-19 18:01:07+00:00)
Title: Added ability to choose SSL version

This also acts as a workaround for #827, which in some cases, if you are
connecting to an SSL server that does not support SSLv2 or SSLv3 (and,
for exapmle, only supports TLSv1), would cause an illegal EOL SSL error.
If you select the right SSL protocol version, you won't see this error.

Kenneth, it looks like you tried to fix this in a previous revision by hard-coding the SSL version, and then you rolled it back. This makes it configurable via parameter to requests.requesttype()