Python and SSL
John Nagle
nagle at animats.com
Thu Oct 4 21:50:59 EDT 2007
Johny wrote:
> Martin and John,
> Thank you both for your replies
> Must I have OpenSSL imported in my Python program?
> So far I have been using only SSL support.
> Built-in SSL support works OK if I connect from my Python program
> directly to SSL server ( but not via proxy).
> L.
SSL isn't SUPPOSED to work through proxies. That's the whole point of
SSL - to prevent somebody in the middle from tapping into the connection.
Look up "man in the middle attack".
John Nagle
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