Getting SSL certificate

[Martin v. Loewis]

"Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> writes:

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

It would, if you would pass key_file and cert_file arguments to
HTTPSConnection. Atleast theoretically; I doubt this has been tested
much.

> Furthermore, when playing with urllib, proxies don't seem to work with the
> https protocol.  It passes the "https://host.com" url to the proxy server,
> instead of using the proxy CONNECT request needed for SSL. Am I doing
> something wrong?

Can you please explain what the CONNECT request is? I have never heard
of it.

Regards,
Martin