diff --git a/no-default-cacert-sles.patch b/no-default-cacert-sles.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ee33c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/no-default-cacert-sles.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+Index: requests-1.1.0/MANIFEST.in
+===================================================================
+--- requests-1.1.0.orig/MANIFEST.in
++++ requests-1.1.0/MANIFEST.in
+@@ -1 +1 @@
+-include README.rst LICENSE NOTICE HISTORY.rst test_requests.py requirements.txt requests/cacert.pem
++include README.rst LICENSE NOTICE HISTORY.rst test_requests.py requirements.txt
+Index: requests-1.1.0/requests/adapters.py
+===================================================================
+--- requests-1.1.0.orig/requests/adapters.py
++++ requests-1.1.0/requests/adapters.py
+@@ -132,9 +132,6 @@ class HTTPAdapter(BaseAdapter):
+             if not cert_loc:
+                 cert_loc = DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH
+ 
+-            if not cert_loc:
+-                raise Exception("Could not find a suitable SSL CA certificate bundle.")
+-
+             conn.cert_reqs = 'CERT_REQUIRED'
+             conn.ca_certs = cert_loc
+         else:
+Index: requests-1.1.0/requests/certs.py
+===================================================================
+--- requests-1.1.0.orig/requests/certs.py
++++ requests-1.1.0/requests/certs.py
+@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def where():
+ def where():
+     """Return the preferred certificate bundle."""
+     # vendored bundle inside Requests
+-    return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'cacert.pem')
++    return None
+ 
+ if __name__ == '__main__':
+     print(where())
+Index: requests-1.1.0/requests.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
+===================================================================
+--- requests-1.1.0.orig/requests.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
++++ requests-1.1.0/requests.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
+@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ requests/__init__.py
+ requests/adapters.py
+ requests/api.py
+ requests/auth.py
+-requests/cacert.pem
+ requests/certs.py
+ requests/compat.py
+ requests/cookies.py
+@@ -82,4 +81,4 @@ requests/packages/urllib3/util.py
+ requests/packages/urllib3/packages/__init__.py
+ requests/packages/urllib3/packages/ordered_dict.py
+ requests/packages/urllib3/packages/six.py
+-requests/packages/urllib3/packages/ssl_match_hostname/__init__.py
+\ No newline at end of file
++requests/packages/urllib3/packages/ssl_match_hostname/__init__.py
diff --git a/python-requests.changes b/python-requests.changes
index 2c6a6d9..11b4cee 100644
--- a/python-requests.changes
+++ b/python-requests.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec  9 15:27:58 UTC 2013 - vuntz@suse.com
+
+- Add no-default-cacert-sles.patch: use this patch when building
+  for SLES, since python in SLES and openSUSE behave differently
+  when it comes to SSL, and no-default-cacert.patch is wrong for
+  SLES.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Nov  7 10:07:58 UTC 2013 - mcihar@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/python-requests.spec b/python-requests.spec
index 04c28f6..c893593 100644
--- a/python-requests.spec
+++ b/python-requests.spec
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Source:         http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-%{version}.tar.gz
 # PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE no-default-cacert.patch -- completely ignore the internal CA bundle
 Patch0:         no-default-cacert.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE no-default-cacert-sles.patch -- completely ignore the internal CA bundle (SLES version)
+Patch1:         no-default-cacert-sles.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  python
 BuildRequires:  python-devel
@@ -66,7 +68,11 @@ Features:
 %setup -q -n requests-%{version}
 # For rpmlint warning: remove shebang from python library:
 sed -i '/^#!/d' ./requests/certs.py
+%if %suse_version > 1110
 %patch0 -p1
+%else
+%patch1 -p1
+%endif
 rm ./requests/cacert.pem
 
 %build