HTTPS connection Python

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I am trying to verify the that target exposes a https web service  I have code to connect via HTTP but I am not sure how to connect via HTTPS  I have read you use SSL but I have also read that it did not support certificate errors  The code I have got is from the python docs   import httplib conn   httplib HTTPConnection  www python org   conn request  GET     index html   r1   conn getresponse   print r1 status  r1 reason   Does anyone know how to connect to HTTPS   I already tried the HTTPSConenction but it responds with an error code claiming httplib does not have attribute HTTPSConnection  I also don t have socket ssl available   I have installed Python 2 6 4 and I don t think it has SSL support compiled into it  Is there a way to integrate this suppot into the newer python without having to install it again   I have installed OpenSSL and pyOpenSsl and I have tried the below code from one of the answers   import urllib2 from OpenSSL import SSL try       response   urllib2 urlopen  https   example com         print  response headers    s     response info    except IOError  e       if hasattr e   code      HTTPError          print  http error code     e code      elif hasattr e   reason      URLError          print  can t connect  reason     e reason      else           raise   I have got an error       Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 2  in  lt module gt    File   home build workspace downloads Python-2 6 4 Lib urllib py   line 87  in urlopen     return opener open url    File   home build workspace downloads Python-2 6 4 Lib urllib py   line 203  in open     return self open unknown fullurl  data    File   home build workspace downloads Python-2 6 4 Lib urllib py   line 215  in open unknown     raise IOError    url error    unknown url type   type  IOError   Errno url error  unknown url type   https    Does anyone know how to get this working   -- UPDATE   I have found out what the problem was  the Python version I was using did not have support for SSL  I have found this solution currently at  http   www webtop com au compiling-python-with-ssl-support    The code will now work after this solution which is very good  When I import ssl and HTTPSConnection I know don t get an error   Thanks for the help all

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using   class httplib HTTPSConnection   http   docs python org library httplib html httplib HTTPSConnection

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To check for ssl support in Python 2 6    try      import ssl except ImportError      print  error  no ssl support    To connect via https   import urllib2  try      response   urllib2 urlopen  https   example com        print  response headers    s     response info   except IOError  e      if hasattr e   code      HTTPError         print  http error code     e code     elif hasattr e   reason      URLError         print  can t connect  reason     e reason     else          raise

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Assuming SSL support is enabled for the socket module   connection1   httplib HTTPSConnection  www somesecuresite com

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Why haven t you tried httplib HTTPSConnection  It doesn t do SSL validation but this isn t required to connect over https  Your code works fine with https connection    gt  gt  gt  import httplib  gt  gt  gt  conn   httplib HTTPSConnection  mail google com    gt  gt  gt  conn request  GET         gt  gt  gt  r1   conn getresponse    gt  gt  gt  print r1 status  r1 reason 200 OK

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I had some code that was failing with an HTTPConnection  MOVED PERMANENTLY error   but as soon as I switched to HTTPS it worked perfectly again with no other changes needed   That s a very simple fix

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If using httplib HTTPSConnection   Please take a look at      Changed in version 2 7 9       This class now performs all the necessary certificate and hostname   checks by default  To revert to the previous  unverified  behavior   ssl  create unverified context   can be passed to the context   parameter  You can use    if hasattr ssl    create unverified context      ssl  create default https context   ssl  create unverified context

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Python 2 x  docs python org 2 library httplib html      Note  HTTPS support is only available if the socket module was compiled with SSL support    Python 3 x  docs python org 3 library http client html      Note HTTPS support is only available if Python was compiled with SSL support  through the ssl module        usr bin env python  import httplib c   httplib HTTPSConnection  ccc de   c request  GET        response   c getresponse   print response status  response reason data   response read   print data     gt     200 OK    lt  DOCTYPE html        To verify if SSL is enabled  try    gt  gt  gt  import socket  gt  gt  gt  socket ssl  lt function ssl at 0x4038b0 gt

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import requests r   requests get  https   stackoverflow com    data   r content    Content of response  print r status code    Status code of response print data

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