Maya 2020 hard crashes from urllib2

[clamdragon]

Hello all,

I'm posting this in the programming forum because that's the level that I'm guessing my issue is on. In python, when I call urllib2.urlopen (edit: or urllib.urlopen), Maya hard crashes - not even a fatal error window, it's just gone. Not absolutely every endpoint causes the crash, but many do. You may think the obvious answer is to not use urllib2.urlopen, but it's a plugin that's doing it so not really up to me. Bizarrely, this only happens on my new computer but not my old one. It's a new PC so Windows is freshly installed, and I have re-installed Maya several times now. It crashes in headless mode too - mayapy.exe will die if I run:

import urllib2
urllib2.urlopen("https://www.google.com")

Anybody ever seen something like this before?

[clamdragon]

Some animators started having the issue. After looking around I think there is a conflict with 11th gen intel processors and Maya 2020's python SSL library. That's above my pay grade so I have just commented out all urllib requests in our plugins. I sure hope we don't end up needing them.

[techXVCP5 · Accepted solution]

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/troubleshooting/openssl-sha-crash-bug-req...

set OPENSSL_ia32cap=:~0x20000000