ndg_httpsclient

This is a HTTPS client implementation based on PyOpenSSL for httplib and urllib2.

Releases

0.1.0

Initial release to PyPI.

Examples

1. Using urllib2 extension:

   >>> from ndg.httpsclient.urllib2_build_opener import build_opener
   >>> opener = build_opener()
   >>> res = opener.open('https://localhost/')
   >>> print("res = %s" % res.read())
   

2. httplib interface:
   • Make context verify the peer:

     >>> from OpenSSL import SSL
     >>> ctx = SSL.Context(SSL.SSLv3_METHOD)
     >>> verify_callback = lambda conn, x509, errnum, errdepth, preverify_ok: preverify_ok 
     >>> ctx.set_verify(SSL.VERIFY_PEER, verify_callback)
     >>> ctx.set_verify_depth(9)
     >>> ctx.load_verify_locations(None, '/my/cacerts')
     

   • Make a new connection with this context:

     >>> from ndg.httpsclient.https import HTTPSConnection
     >>> conn = HTTPSConnection('localhost', port=443, ssl_context=ctx)
     >>> conn.connect()
     >>> conn.request('GET', '/')
     >>> resp = conn.getresponse()
     >>> print('Response = %s' % resp.read())
     

Repository

 http://proj.badc.rl.ac.uk/svn/ndg-security/trunk/ndg_httpsclient

Unit Tests

See the ndg.httpsclient.test package.

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Philip Kershaw 17/01/12