How to do mutual certificate authentication with httplib2

Question

I\'m using httplib2 to make a request from my server to another web service. We want to use mutual certificate authentication. I see how to use a certificate for the outgoing

Answer 1

perhaps things have changed since your question, I am able to do mutual authentication with httplib2 v0.7, as below:

import httplib2

h=httplib2.Http(ca_certs='ca.crt')
h.add_certificate(key='client_private_key.pem', cert='cert_client.pem', domain='')
try: resp, cont = h.request('https://mytest.com/cgi-bin/test.cgi')
except Exception as e: print e

Note the domain='' argument, this is the only way I could make it work