[python] Validate SSL certificates with Python

Here's an example script which demonstrates certificate validation:

import httplib
import re
import socket
import sys
import urllib2
import ssl

class InvalidCertificateException(httplib.HTTPException, urllib2.URLError):
    def __init__(self, host, cert, reason):
        httplib.HTTPException.__init__(self)
        self.host = host
        self.cert = cert
        self.reason = reason

    def __str__(self):
        return ('Host %s returned an invalid certificate (%s) %s\n' %
                (self.host, self.reason, self.cert))

class CertValidatingHTTPSConnection(httplib.HTTPConnection):
    default_port = httplib.HTTPS_PORT

    def __init__(self, host, port=None, key_file=None, cert_file=None,
                             ca_certs=None, strict=None, **kwargs):
        httplib.HTTPConnection.__init__(self, host, port, strict, **kwargs)
        self.key_file = key_file
        self.cert_file = cert_file
        self.ca_certs = ca_certs
        if self.ca_certs:
            self.cert_reqs = ssl.CERT_REQUIRED
        else:
            self.cert_reqs = ssl.CERT_NONE

    def _GetValidHostsForCert(self, cert):
        if 'subjectAltName' in cert:
            return [x[1] for x in cert['subjectAltName']
                         if x[0].lower() == 'dns']
        else:
            return [x[0][1] for x in cert['subject']
                            if x[0][0].lower() == 'commonname']

    def _ValidateCertificateHostname(self, cert, hostname):
        hosts = self._GetValidHostsForCert(cert)
        for host in hosts:
            host_re = host.replace('.', '\.').replace('*', '[^.]*')
            if re.search('^%s$' % (host_re,), hostname, re.I):
                return True
        return False

    def connect(self):
        sock = socket.create_connection((self.host, self.port))
        self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, keyfile=self.key_file,
                                          certfile=self.cert_file,
                                          cert_reqs=self.cert_reqs,
                                          ca_certs=self.ca_certs)
        if self.cert_reqs & ssl.CERT_REQUIRED:
            cert = self.sock.getpeercert()
            hostname = self.host.split(':', 0)[0]
            if not self._ValidateCertificateHostname(cert, hostname):
                raise InvalidCertificateException(hostname, cert,
                                                  'hostname mismatch')


class VerifiedHTTPSHandler(urllib2.HTTPSHandler):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        urllib2.AbstractHTTPHandler.__init__(self)
        self._connection_args = kwargs

    def https_open(self, req):
        def http_class_wrapper(host, **kwargs):
            full_kwargs = dict(self._connection_args)
            full_kwargs.update(kwargs)
            return CertValidatingHTTPSConnection(host, **full_kwargs)

        try:
            return self.do_open(http_class_wrapper, req)
        except urllib2.URLError, e:
            if type(e.reason) == ssl.SSLError and e.reason.args[0] == 1:
                raise InvalidCertificateException(req.host, '',
                                                  e.reason.args[1])
            raise

    https_request = urllib2.HTTPSHandler.do_request_

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print "usage: python %s CA_CERT URL" % sys.argv[0]
        exit(2)

    handler = VerifiedHTTPSHandler(ca_certs = sys.argv[1])
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler)
    print opener.open(sys.argv[2]).read()