Re: validating HTTPS certificates?

2009-06-29 Thread Andras.Horvath
validation. Validation should just be a matter of passing cert_reqs=CERT_REQUIRED and ca_certs= to ssl.wrap_socket(), then checking that SSLSocket.getpeercert() returns a non-empty dictionary. That'd be cool unless I can't use an already-open socket (by SSL, for verification) in any of the

validating HTTPS certificates?

2009-06-26 Thread Andras.Horvath
Hi, (disclaimer: this might be a FAQ entry somewhere but I honestly did use Google) I'm in the process of picking a language for a client application that accesses a HTTPS (actually SOAP) server. This would be easy enough in Python, but I came across a strange fact: neither httplib nor urllib