urllib with x509 certs

[Chris Rebert]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Lacrima<Lacrima.Maxim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to use urllib to fetch some internet resources, using my
> client x509 certificate.
> I have divided my .p12 file into mykey.key and mycert.cer files.
> Then I use following approach:
>>>> import urllib
>>>> url = 'https://example.com'
>>>> xml = '''<request>
> ... <somexml>somexml</somexml>
> </request>'''
>>>> opener = urllib.URLopener(key_file = 'mykey.key', cert_file = 'mycert.cer')
>>>> f = opener.open(url, xml)
>
> This works Ok! But every time I am asked to enter PEM pass phrase,
> which I specified during dividing my .p12 file.
> So my question... What should I do to make my code fetch any url
> automatically (without asking me every time to enter pass phrase)?
> As I understand there is impossible to specify pass phrase while
> constructing URLopener.
> So what should I do?

Subclass FancyURLopener
[http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html#urllib.FancyURLopener],
overriding the prompt_user_passwd() method
[http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html#urllib.FancyURLopener.prompt_user_passwd].
Then use an instance of your subclass instead of URLopener.

Cheers,
Chris
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