certificate-based authentication

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Dennis.Hoffman at seagate.com wrote:
> I have been using XML-RPC to get information from one of our remote
> servers.  To improve security, the server now has a certificate installed,
> and when I try to access it, I get an 'Unauthorized' exception.  Is there
> an xmlrpclib module that supports (client-side) certificate-based
> authentication?  If so, where can I get it, and what  is involved in doing
> the  authentication? If not, what are my options?

The standard xmlrpclib should work fine. You need to inherit from the
SafeTransport class, overriding get_host_info to return the x509_info.
You then pass an instance of your transport to the ServerProxy.

HTH,
Martin