On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Jeffrey Gaynor <jgay...@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I am making a first large project in python and am having quite a bit of > difficulty unscrambling various python versions and what they can/cannot do. > To wit, I must communicate with certain services via https and am required to > perform certificate verification on them. > > The problem is that I also have to do this under CentOS 5.5 which only uses > python 2.4 as its default -- this is not negotiable. As near as I can tell > from reading various posts, the https client does not do verification and > there is no low-level SSL support to provide a workaround. Near as I can > tell from reading, 2.6 does include this. Am I getting this right? Is there a > simple way to do this? More to the point, I need to know pretty darn quick if > this is impossible so we can try and plan for it. > > So the quick question: Has anyone done certificate verification using 2.4 > and if so, how? > > Thanks!
M2Crypto is the way to go here. I think there's an example on their site. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
