SSL Sockets in Windows

[Gerhard Häring]

Le 28/12/01 à 07:18, Syver Enstad écrivit:
> 
> Hi Al, I'm not exactly an expert on SSL :-). I know it's what goes on
> behind the scenes when my browser uses an https url and communication
> is encrypted and whatnot. 
> 
> Do you have (or can you refer me to) a quick
> example to check that SSL is indeed working on Python?

You can check pretty easily if your Python is compiled with SSL support:
    
    'ssl' in dir(socket)

If so, you should be able to fetch a HTML page with the urllib module:

    print urllib.urlopen("https://www.sf.net/").read()

If you have a packet sniffer running while fetching the page, you should
see only garbage instead of cleartext HTTP/HTML.

Gerhard
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