Getting SSL certificate

[Martin v. Löwis]

Erno Kuusela <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> writes:

> || The httplib modules supports SSL, but does not check certificates.  

Can you please explain what it means to check a certificate?

> what do these arguments do? i had been under the impression
> that key_file is for sending a client certificate, 

Correct, so probably not relevant.

> and cert_file was for a certificate authority that the server cert
> should be checked against. but it is a faint impression :)

Yes. And you need such a thing to check a server certificate.

> in case it is so, this still does not let you at the server
> certificate...

Is there a missing here?

Regards,
Martin