urllib.error.URLError: urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED]

[DSmyungjin]

urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1091)>

i was trying to install geopans on my desktop

Package `gdal` found in cache
Downloading package . . .
https://download.lfd.uci.edu/pythonlibs/archived/cp37/GDAL-3.4.2-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl
GDAL-3.4.2-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1350, in do_open
    encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding'))
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\http\client.py", line 1281, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\http\client.py", line 1327, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\http\client.py", line 1276, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\http\client.py", line 1036, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\http\client.py", line 976, in send
    self.connect()
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\http\client.py", line 1451, in connect
    server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\ssl.py", line 423, in wrap_socket
    session=session
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\ssl.py", line 870, in _create
    self.do_handshake()
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\ssl.py", line 1139, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1091)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\Scripts\pipwin.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\site-packages\pipwin\command.py", line 103, in main
    cache.install(package)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\site-packages\pipwin\pipwin.py", line 300, in install
    wheel_file = self.download(requirement)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\site-packages\pipwin\pipwin.py", line 294, in download
    return self._download(requirement, dest)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\site-packages\pipwin\pipwin.py", line 290, in _download
    obj.start()
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\site-packages\pySmartDL\pySmartDL.py", line 267, in start
    urlObj = urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=self.timeout, context=self.context)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\urllib\request.py", line 222, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\urllib\request.py", line 525, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\urllib\request.py", line 543, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\urllib\request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1393, in https_open
    context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname)
  File "C:\Users\audwl\anaconda3\envs\py37_crawler\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1352, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1091)>

and tried to download wheel file by myself with this url
https://download.lfd.uci.edu/pythonlibs/archived/cp37/GDAL-3.4.2-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl

it says server's security certification expired

[samapriya]

Since you are using anaconda you can directly use conda install since they precompile packages as well.
for example

conda install gdal

LFD has the SSL certification expire on Jan 8 and the website itself has not been updated since June 2022.