http to https forwarding

[Gerhard Häring]

* David Iungerich <david.iungerich at kwe.com> [2002-07-24 16:44 -0500]:
> Has anyone setup anything to implement the following scenario.

I recently did a proof-of-concept:

from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
import BaseHTTPServer
import urllib2

FORWARD_URL_START = "https://sourceforge.net"

class ProxyRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        f = urllib2.urlopen(FORWARD_URL_START + self.path)
        data = f.read()
        content_type = f.info()["Content-Type"]
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Content-Type", content_type)
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(data)

def main():
    BaseHTTPServer.test(ProxyRequestHandler)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

> I need to do it, and fast.

Was that fast enough? ;-)

> I need to an http to https forwarder.   My scenario is as follows:
> 
> I have an appserver that needs to POST http requests to another
> company's appserver. Unfortunately, the particular product we are
> using has issues being able to send https, and the other company
> requires it. They have issued us certificates to talk to them.

For certificate handling you need something better than the standard
Python SSL. Both PyOpenSSL or m2crypto can do certificates.

Oh well, I promised to look into this and write a PEP, but was occopied
with other stuff lately :-/

Gerhard
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