verifying ssl certificates

[Paul Rubin]

"Christopher N. Deckard" <cnd at ecn.purdue.edu> writes:
> In other words:
> 
> import socket
> 
> cert = open('my_cert')
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> s.connect(('host', 'port'))
> ss = ssl(s, cert, None)
> 
> That last line being the key.  Does that do the certificate
> validation?

I'm not familiar with how the socket module does ssl, but if ssl() is
supposed to do an SSL session negotiation, then yes, it should check
the cert.