Hi Bogdan,
Please use the preformatted text format for code for better readability. You can do that by highlighting the text, then pressing Ctrl+E.
Not sure if the shipped python in 1.6.0p27 is maybe coming with an older urllib or something that has issues with the new certificate, can you reproduce this issue in a 2.1.0p24 test site? (if not, maybe this is the IT gods way of giving you incentive to update from 1.6 which was EOL last september 
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Gerd