https://github.com/cedadev/ndg_httpsclient

HTTPS client implementation for httplib and urllib2 based on PyOpenSSL
https://github.com/cedadev/ndg_httpsclient

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HTTPS client implementation for httplib and urllib2 based on PyOpenSSL

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/cedadev/ndg_httpsclient
Owner: cedadev
Created: 2013-09-02T12:53:27.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2021-03-19T16:39:00.000Z (about 5 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-20T02:58:19.214Z (4 months ago)
Language: Python
Size: 116 KB
Stars: 19
Watchers: 13
Forks: 20
Open Issues: 5
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          A HTTPS client implementation for 

 * ``httplib`` (Python 2), ``http.client`` (Python 3) and 

 * ``urllib2`` (Python 2) and ``urllib`` (Python 3)

... based on PyOpenSSL.  PyOpenSSL provides a more fully featured SSL implementation 

over the default provided with Python and importantly enables full verification 

of the SSL peer using ``pyasn1``.

Releases

========

0.5.1

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 * Clean up handling for description file - pull in content from this file into setup()

 * Allows the nightly build to fail

 * Add Trove version classifiers to make it explicit what is supported

 * Add python_requires to help pip

 * Drop support for EOL Python 2.6 and 3.3  

  

Thanks to @hugovk for contributions

0.5.0

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 * Fix to Subject Alternative Name handling to allow for certificates with

   more than 64 names (max now 1024).  Thanks to Matt Pegler

 * Fix to subjectAltName string to use byte type for correct matching 

 * Updated SSL Context objects to default to TLS 1.2

0.4.4

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 * Updated test certificates

0.4.3

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 * Fix to ``ndg`` namespace package warning issue (https://github.com/cedadev/ndg_httpsclient/issues/3).  

   ``__init__.py`` file now included in ``ndg`` directory so that there are no longer warnings with imports

   when using Python 2.x.  Thanks to Max Mauntner for fix.

 * Minor fix for installation: set minimum release for ``pyasn1`` to avoid conflicts with Ubuntu

   install - see https://github.com/cedadev/ndg_httpsclient/issues/5 and

   https://github.com/cedadev/ndg_httpsclient/pull/10.  ``pyasn1`` also becomes mandatory rather

   than optional package for install.  - It required by ``cryptography`` anyway which is a 

   dependency for ``pyOpenSSL`` from version 0.14.

0.4.2

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 * Fix to bug in ``ndg.httpsclient.utils.open_url`` - duplicate open call.  

   Nb. This bug and the fix DO NOT affect the ``httplib``and ``urllib2`` 

   interfaces that this package provides.

 

0.4.1

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 * Added explicit ref to Python 3 in classifier text for Python 3 checking tools.

 * Moved LICENSE file into package

0.4.0

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 * Made dual compatible with Python 2 / 3.

 

0.3.3

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 * Fix to add in AnotherName for ``subjectAltNames`` field - added for support for CACert issued

   certs (thanks to Gu1).

 * Fix to HTTP Basic Auth option for ``ndg.httpsclient.utils.main``

 * Fix to ``ServerSSLCertVerification`` so that it can pass a function-based callback instead of using ``__call__``. In newer versions of OpenSSL (>= 0.14) the latter failed because of a request for ``__name__`` attribute.

0.3.2

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 * Fix to SubjectAltNames support check - should only be enabled if pyasn1 is 

   installed.

 * Fix to open_url: HTTP Request object was being created inside if headers is 

   None block - now corrected to create regardless.

 * Added http basic auth support to script. (Thanks to Willem van Engen)

 

0.3.1

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 * extended utils functions to support keyword for passing additional ``urllib2``

   handlers.

0.3.0

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 * Added ``ndg.httpsclient.utils.fetch_stream_from_url`` function and added

   parameter for data to post in ``open_url`` and ``fetch_*`` methods.

 * fix to ndg.httpsclient.utils module _should_use_proxy and open_url functions

0.2.0

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 * added support for SSL verification with subjectAltNames using pyasn1

 * fixed minor bug - SSL cert DN prefix matching

0.1.0

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Initial release

Prerequisites

=============

This has been developed and tested for Python 2.7 with pyOpenSSL 0.13 

and 0.14.  Version 0.4.0 tested with ``pyOpenSSL`` 0.15.1 and Python 2.7 and 

3.4. 

``pyasn1`` is required for correct SSL verification with ``subjectAltNames``.

Installation

============

Installation can be performed using ``easy_install`` or ``pip``.

Running ndg_httpclient

======================

A simple script for fetching data using HTTP or HTTPS GET from a specified URL.

Parameter:

``url``

  The URL of the resource to be fetched

Options:

``-h, --help``

  Show help message and exit.

``-c FILE, --certificate=FILE``

  Certificate file - defaults to ``$HOME/credentials.pem``

``-k FILE, --private-key=FILE``

  Private key file - defaults to the certificate file

``-t DIR, --ca-certificate-dir=DIR``

  Trusted CA certificate file directory.

``-d, --debug``

  Print debug information - this may be useful in solving problems with HTTP or 

  HTTPS access to a server.

    

``-p FILE, --post-data-file=FILE``

  POST data file

    

``-f FILE, --fetch=FILE``

  Output file

    

``-n, --no-verify-peer``

  Skip verification of peer certificate.

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