John J. Lee wrote: > James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I have been trying to make an https client with python, but it seems > > > What exactly do you mean by "make an https client"?
Something that can communicate with an https server. Fetch web pages, send POST and GET information securely. >>that, to do this, one needs to have the socket module compiled with ssl. >>This is not the default. So I have a couple of questions. >> >> 1. Where do I specify to compile socket with ssl? I found no >> obvious option in configure or setup.py or several other >> files I checked. > > > What OS are you on? Linux FC 4 with my self-compiled versions of just about everything. > >> 2. Is there a way to do this without re-compiling all of python? > > > Are you sure it's NOT compiled in? But, if it's not compiled, it's > not compiled. Its not compiled by default. I think I read this somewhere. I was thinking of compiling just the socket module rather than installing over my old version. > >>Also, I have done numerous combinations of searches with ssl, https, & >>python as terms, but I haven't found a page outlining the steps to make >>a certificate and key that python understands. Has anyone been >>successful at this? Did you use openssl? I want to make sure I am doing >>this part correctly. > > > Since you say "make a certificate", and mention "https client", it > sounds like you want to authenticate yourself to an HTTP server using > an SSL certificate? If so, I don't believe the issue Benji raised is > relevant (that issue is relevant for fetching HTTPS URLs rather than > authenticating yourself to a server using an SSL certificate, I > think). > > urllib claims to have support for this in the form of the key_file and > cert_file arguments to Urlopener constructor (UNTESTED): > > import urllib > opener = urllib.URLopener(key_file="/path/to/my_key_file", > cert_file="/path/to/my_cert_file") > response = opener.open(url) At this point, authenticating is not an issue, though it would be nice to know how to do. Mainly, I want to establish a secure connection for 2-way communication via https. At any rate, I was able to make M2Crypto do what I wanted last night, so I think I'll bypass the standard library route for now. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
