python xmlrpc client with ssl client certificates and standard modules

[News123]

Thanks for your answer.


I'll look at web2py.

However web2py seems to address the xmlrpc server (at least in your
example). The xmlrpc server application exists alerady and requires a
client certificate.

The client example doesn't seem to be using a certificate.

So I'll be reading a little into web2py.


bye


N


mdipierro wrote:
> xmlrpc acts at the application layer and ssl at the transport layer so
> they can inter operate easily as long as you do not use the
> certificate to authenticate the client but only validate the server
> and encrypt data (which you can also do but it is more complicated)
> 
> One option for you is to use web2py which include an xmlrpc server
> that uses a wsgi ssl enabled web server.
> 
> Here is how:
> 
> 1) Install web2py
> 2) Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin and create a new application from
> the web based IDE
> 3) create your web service for example, in a controller default.py
> 
>      @service.xmlrpc
>      def add(a,b): return int(a)+int(b)
> 
> 4) Restart web2py with
> 
>      python web2py.py -a ADMIN_PASSWD -c SSL_CERTIFICATE -k
> SSL_PRIVATE_KEY -i 0.0.0.0 -p 443
> 
> 5) You can now access the service from any Python program:
> 
>      >>> import xmlrpclib
>      >>> server_url = 'https://myserver:443/yourapp/default/call/
> xmlrpc'
>      >>> server = xmlrpclib.Server(server_url)
>      >>> print server.add(3,4)
>      7
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 3, 8:12 pm, News123 <news... at free.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was googling fot quite some time and was not really succesfull.
>>
>> I found one solution, which I will try soon.
>> It ishttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken/xmlrpc-ssl.html
>> (found inhttp://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/python-il/2008-February/000029.html)
>>
>> This will probably work, but it requires the module M2Crypto.
>>
>> In order to avoid installing M2Crypto an all hosts that want to run the
>> script I wondered, whether there is no other solution.
>>
>> I can do xmlrpc over ssl WITHOUT certificates with following code:
>>
>> import xmlrpclib
>> server_url = 'https://myserver'
>> server = xmlrpclib.Server(server_url);
>>
>> and I can perform a https get request WITH certificates with below snippet:
>>
>> import httplib
>> conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(
>>         HOSTNAME,
>>         key_file = KEYFILE,
>>         cert_file = CERTFILE
>> )
>> conn.putrequest('GET', '/')
>> conn.endheaders()
>> response = conn.getresponse()
>> print response.read()
>>
>> I'm just lost of how to 'combine' both.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions / hints
>>
>> N
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