Python Web Scraping: Verify SSL certificates for HTTPS requests using requests module
Python Web Scraping: Exercise-27 with Solution
Write a Python program to verify SSL certificates for HTTPS requests using requests module.
Note: Requests verifies SSL certificates for HTTPS requests, just like a web browser. By default, SSL verification is enabled, and Requests will throw a SSLError if it’s unable to verify the certificate
Sample Solution:
Python Code:
import requests
print(requests.get('https://w3resource.com'))
print(requests.get('https://wayback.com'))
Sample Output:
<Response [200]> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 600, in urlopen chunked=chunked) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 343, in _make_request self._validate_conn(conn) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 839, in _validate_conn conn.connect() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 364, in connect _match_hostname(cert, self.assert_hostname or server_hostname) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 374, in _match_hostname match_hostname(cert, asserted_hostname) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 327, in match_hostname % (hostname, ', '.join(map(repr, dnsnames)))) ssl.CertificateError: hostname 'wayback.com' doesn't match either of '*.prod.iad2.secureserver.net', 'prod.iad2.secureserver.net' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 449, in send timeout=timeout File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 638, in urlopen _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2]) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 398, in increment raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause)) urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='wayback.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(CertificateError("hostname 'wayback.com' doesn't match either of '*.prod.iad2.secureserver.net', 'prod.iad2.secureserver.net'",),)) During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/sessions/d2a193285f0c778a/main.py", line 3, in <module> print(requests.get('https://wayback.com')) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 75, in get return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 60, in request return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 533, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 646, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 514, in send raise SSLError(e, request=request) requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='wayback.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(CertificateError("hostname 'wayback.com' doesn't match either of '*.prod.iad2.secureserver.net', 'prod.iad2.secureserver.net'",),))
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Find current directory and file's directory:
To get the full path to the directory a Python file is contained in, write this in that file:
import os dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
(Note that the incantation above won't work if you've already used os.chdir() to change your current working directory, since the value of the __file__ constant is relative to the current working directory and is not changed by an os.chdir() call.)
To get the current working directory use
import os cwd = os.getcwd()
Documentation references for the modules, constants and functions used above:
- The os and os.path modules.
- The __file__ constant
- os.path.realpath(path) (returns "the canonical path of the specified filename, eliminating any symbolic links encountered in the path")
- os.path.dirname(path) (returns "the directory name of pathname path")
- os.getcwd() (returns "a string representing the current working directory")
- os.chdir(path) ("change the current working directory to path")
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