Hi Python enthusiasts,
I'm working on youtube-dl, a handy tool for downloading videos from various
websites. There are occasional bug reports with SSL error
CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED when people are trying to download videos from
youtube.com [1] or dailymotion.com [2]. The issue about youtube.com
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:22 PM, dieter wrote:
> Chi Hsuan Yen writes:
> > ...
> > Apparently OpenSSL verifies the whole certificate chain and
> > report an error as soon as it finds an invalid certificate in the chain.
>
> As it must, if you require verification.
>
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:54 PM, dieter wrote:
> Chi Hsuan Yen writes:
> > ...
> > Thanks a lot! I just lost my direction when trying to understand how
> > certificate verification works in Python.
>
> It sets things up for "OpenSSL" and then delegates all
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Chi Hsuan Yen wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:54 PM, dieter wrote:
>
>> Chi Hsuan Yen writes:
>> > ...
>> > Thanks a lot! I just lost my direction when trying to understand how
>> > certificate verification
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Chi Hsuan Yen wrote:
> > I found that OpenSSL provides an X509 callback hook that allows clients
> to
> > know why the verification process fails. Seems CPython does not use it
> yet.
