Verifying HTTPS certificates with urllib.request

Question

I am trying to open an https URL using the urlopen method in Python 3\'s urllib.request module. It seems to work fine, but the documentation warns that \"[i]f neither

Answer 1

Elias Zamarias answer still works, but gives a deprecation warning:

DeprecationWarning: cafile, cpath and cadefault are deprecated, use a custom context instead.

I was able to solve the same problem this way instead (using Python 3.7.0):

import ssl
import urllib.request

ssl_context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
response = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.example.com", context=ssl_context)