How to get Python requests to trust a self signed

Question

import requests
data = {'foo':'bar'}
url = 'https://foo.com/bar'
r = requests.post(url, data=data)

If the URL uses a self signed certificate, this fails with

requests.exceptions.SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:507: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

I know that I can pass False to the verify parameter, like this:

r = requests.post(url, data=data, verify=False)

However, what I would like to do is point requests to a copy of the public key on disk and tell it to trust that certificate.

Answer 1

Setting export SSL_CERT_FILE=/path/file.crt should do the job.

Answer 2

You may try:

settings = s.merge_environment_settings(prepped.url, None, None, None, None)

You can read more here: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/

Answer 3

try:

r = requests.post(url, data=data, verify='/path/to/public_key.pem')

Answer 4

The easiest is to export the variable REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE that points to your private certificate authority, or a specific certificate bundle. On the command line you can do that as follows:

export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/path/to/your/certificate.pem
python script.py

If you have your certificate authority and you don't want to type the export each time you can add the REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE to your ~/.bash_profile as follows:

echo "export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/path/to/your/certificate.pem" >> ~/.bash_profile ; source ~/.bash_profile

Answer 5

Case where multiple certificates are needed was solved as follows: Concatenate the multiple root pem files, myCert-A-Root.pem and myCert-B-Root.pem, to a file. Then set the requests REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE var to that file in my ./.bash_profile.

$ cp myCert-A-Root.pem ca_roots.pem
$ cat myCert-B-Root.pem >> ca_roots.pem
$ echo "export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=~/PATH_TO/CA_CHAIN/ca_roots.pem" >> ~/.bash_profile ; source ~/.bash_profile

Answer 6

With the verify parameter you can provide a custom certificate authority bundle (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/):

requests.get(url, verify=path_to_bundle)

You can pass verify the path to a CA_BUNDLE file with certificates of trusted CAs. This list of trusted CAs can also be specified through the REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable.

You can also specify a local cert to use as client side certificate, as a single file (containing the private key and the certificate) or as a tuple of both file’s path:

>>> requests.get('https://kennethreitz.com', cert=('/path/server.crt', '/path/key'))
<Response [200]>