Python and SSL

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> a  certificate that is signed by OpenSSL's own CA( certification
> authority), that is not recognized in the program's list of root CAs,
> causes an exception to be raised.

What is "the program"? What programming language is it written in?
What library does it use to maintain a list of root CAs, and what
code does it execute to find out that a certificate is not in this
list?

Are you sure this is related to Python at all?

Regards,
Martin