Python and SSL
Heikki Toivonen
heikki at osafoundation.org
Fri Sep 28 17:13:13 EDT 2007
Johny wrote:
> I need to use Python with SSL comunication betweeen servers.
> (I use hhtplib but I think urllib2 can also be used )
> I think I need to use SSL root certificate and tell a program to
> trust this certificate.
You can't do secure SSL with the builtin SSL support, you need to use a
third party module. There are a few available, including M2Crypto, TLS
Lite, pyOpenSSL and pyOpenSSL-extended. Since I am the maintainer of
M2Crypto I will naturally recommend that ;)
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto
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Heikki Toivonen
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