Re: Python & SSL

2006-05-04 Thread John J. Lee
Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John J. Lee enlightened us with: > > Of course, remembering that the first thing to ask in response to > > "is it secure?" is "against what?", for lots of purposes it just > > doesn't matter that it ignores certificates. > > I'm curious. Can you give m

Re: Python & SSL

2006-05-04 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Edward Elliott enlightened us with: > Encryption has multiple meanings. In the general sense, it > encompasses all of cryptography and the information security > properties crypto provides. And if you already know who'll get the message, it's secure. I get it :) Thanks for the nice read ;-) >

Re: Python & SSL

2006-05-03 Thread Edward Elliott
Sybren Stuvel wrote: > I'm curious. Can you give me an example? AFAIK you need to know who > you're talking to before transmitting sensitive information, otherwise > you could be talking to anybody - and that's just what you wanted to > prevent with the encryption, right? Encryption has multiple m

Re: Python & SSL

2006-05-03 Thread Sybren Stuvel
John J. Lee enlightened us with: > Of course, remembering that the first thing to ask in response to > "is it secure?" is "against what?", for lots of purposes it just > doesn't matter that it ignores certificates. I'm curious. Can you give me an example? AFAIK you need to know who you're talking

Re: Python & SSL

2006-05-03 Thread John J. Lee
Benji York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Stroud wrote: > > I have been trying to make an https client with python > > You probably don't want to use the standard library for HTTPS; here's a > quote from the socket module docs about SSL: > > Warning: This does not do any certificate

Re: Python & SSL

2006-05-03 Thread James Stroud
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 informati

Re: Python & SSL

2006-05-02 Thread John J. Lee
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"? > 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 quest

Re: Python & SSL

2006-05-02 Thread James Stroud
Benji York wrote: > James Stroud wrote: > >> I have been trying to make an https client with python > > > You probably don't want to use the standard library for HTTPS; here's a > quote from the socket module docs about SSL: > > Warning: This does not do any certificate verification! > >

Re: Python & SSL

2006-05-02 Thread Benji York
James Stroud wrote: > I have been trying to make an https client with python You probably don't want to use the standard library for HTTPS; here's a quote from the socket module docs about SSL: Warning: This does not do any certificate verification! I'd recommend M2Crypto instead: http

Re: python/SSL/Certificate.

2005-09-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Vanessa PARISSE wrote: > In my website, the user connect in HTTPS whith a client certificate. > I would like to get the email in the certificate. > I'm trying to get the client certificate presented to the server. What does that have to do with Python? Are you trying to use Python on the client si

Re: Python SSL Socket issue

2005-04-20 Thread adam
Try con.connect() before the first putrequest -adam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list