[Fedora-suds-list] Suds with PyCurl

[Michael Sommerville]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Good Z <goodz158 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Good Z <goodz158 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am using Python2.4 for my project. Unfortunately the httplib with that
>> does not works well with HTTPS sites. As a result SUDS does not work. The
>> same program works well with Python 2.6.
>>
>> I wonder, is there any way I can use Suds with PyCurl or any other HTTP
>> transport that works well with Python2.4.
>
> A while back David Norton very helpfully wrote up a article on getting
> httplib to work.  This works well for me connecting to our gsoap
> service over HTTPS, albeit using Python 2.5.  Perhaps this might be of
> some help?
>
> The article is available at:
> http://www.threepillarsoftware.com/soap_client_auth
>
> Need one more favour. The code ask for 'keyFileName' and 'certFileName', how
> do i get them for third party website.

Yes that tripped me up too.  What you are doing is establishing *your*
identity to the remote service.  For this purpose you can simply
generate a self signed cert,  as David points out in his write up,
there is no checking that the cert is signed by a known CA.

For some examples, try this link:

http://www.akadia.com/services/ssh_test_certificate.html

Regards,

-Michael