urllib with x509 certs

[Lacrima]

On Jul 4, 11:24 am, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Lacrima<Lacrima.Ma... 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.prom...].
> Then use an instance of your subclass instead of URLopener.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
> --http://blog.rebertia.com

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your quick reply.
According to docs the return value of prompt_user_passwd() method
should be a tuple (user, password), but there is no user when
authenticating with certificate. So how should I use this method? This
doesn't work:
>>> import urllib
>>> class MyOpener(urllib.FancyURLopener):
...      def prompt_user_passwd(self, host, realm):
...          return ('password')
...


With regards, Max