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Answer 1

+3 A:

using

class httplib.HTTPSConnection

http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html#httplib.HTTPSConnection

bluszcz 2010-01-27 11:23:57

Answer 2

+1 A:

Why haven't you tried httplib.HTTPSConnection? It doesn't do SSL validation but this isn't required to connect over https. Your code works fine with https connection:

>>> import httplib
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("mail.google.com")
>>> conn.request("GET", "/")
>>> r1 = conn.getresponse()
>>> print r1.status, r1.reason
200 OK

Piotr Czapla 2010-01-27 11:27:02

Answer 3

+3 A:

http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html:

Note: HTTPS support is only available if the socket module was compiled with SSL support.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import httplib
c = httplib.HTTPSConnection("ccc.de")
c.request("GET", "/")
response = c.getresponse()
print response.status, response.reason
data = response.read()
print data
# => 
# 200 OK
# <!DOCTYPE html ....

To verify if SSL is enabled, try:

>>> import socket
>>> socket.ssl
<function ssl at 0x4038b0>

The MYYN 2010-01-27 11:33:53

Note that this doesn't verify the remote certificate, therefore you don't really get security this way (as you don't really know which server you're really talking to).

Bruno 2010-09-13 23:29:36

Answer 4

+1 A:

Assuming SSL support is enabled for the socket module.

connection1 = httplib.HTTPSConnection('www.somesecuresite.com')

Tendayi Mawushe 2010-01-27 11:55:50

Answer 5

+1 A:

To check for ssl support in Python 2.6+:

try:
    import ssl
except ImportError:
    print "error: no ssl support, check that OpenSSL library is installed"

To connect via https:

import urllib2

try:
    response = urllib2.urlopen('https://example.com') 
    print 'response headers: "%s"' % response.info()
except IOError, e:
    if hasattr(e, 'code'): # HTTPError
        print 'http error code: ', e.code
    elif hasattr(e, 'reason'): # URLError
        print "can't connect, reason: ", e.reason
    else:
        raise

J.F. Sebastian 2010-01-27 12:53:20

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