urllib2 - ability skip certificate verification

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I need to simulate somehow option -k (vide --insecure to ignore SSL certificate verification) for curl but using urllib2. Any clues?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 30 '12 at 19:38

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There is nothing special to do here. urllib2 does not do SSL certificate verification by default. There is a warning in the documentation http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html

Warning HTTPS requests do not do any verification of the server’s certificate.

edited Jul 30 '12 at 19:38

Bruno

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answered Jul 30 '12 at 15:45

Mark Lavin

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What's a good urllib2 alternative that does SSL certificate verification? – kiminoa Mar 11 '14 at 19:37
Actually, it looks like httplib (or http.client in Python 3.0) provides an HTTPSConnection which skips verification. – kiminoa Mar 11 '14 at 19:47
http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ is a popular library which does SSL verification by default. – Mark Lavin Mar 11 '14 at 20:12
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Apperantly newer versions do:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19268548/python-ignore-certicate-validation-urllib2 – Bernhard Jun 03 '16 at 13:26
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Yes this changed in Python 2.7.9. – Mark Lavin Jun 03 '16 at 14:15

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