Revision 2 as of 2010-11-09 14:59:29

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SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and is designed to create secure connection between client and server. Secure means that connection is encrypted and therefore protected from eavesdropping. It also allows to validate server identity.

SSL libraries availability and limitations

SSL support is available from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ssl Unfortunately, no binaries are available for Windows, and that's a major showstopper when using Python 2.5.

SSL module from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ssl is bundled with installer. But it has some bugs (unfortunately, Python bug tracker doesn't allow to query these reliably)

Validating server certificate

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