andras.horv...@cern.ch wrote: > I'm in the process of picking a language for a client application that > accesses a HTTPS (actually SOAP) server. This would be easy enough in > Python, but I came across a strange fact: neither httplib nor urllib > offer the possibility to actually verify the server's certificate.
Right, stdlib does not do this for you automatically. You'd either need to write that code yourself, or use a third party library. I wrote a long post about this when 2.6 came out: http://www.heikkitoivonen.net/blog/2008/10/14/ssl-in-python-26/ -- Heikki Toivonen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
