Python and SSL
John Nagle
nagle at animats.com
Sat Sep 29 00:14:37 EDT 2007
Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> Johny wrote:
>> I need to use Python with SSL comunication betweeen servers.
>> (I use hhtplib but I think urllib2 can also be used )
>> I think I need to use SSL root certificate and tell a program to
>> trust this certificate.
>
> You can't do secure SSL with the builtin SSL support, you need to use a
> third party module. There are a few available, including M2Crypto, TLS
> Lite, pyOpenSSL and pyOpenSSL-extended. Since I am the maintainer of
> M2Crypto I will naturally recommend that ;)
>
> http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto
Any progress on getting M2Crypto 0.18 to build successfully
on Fedora Core?
John Nagle
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