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

import certifi
import ssl
import urllib.request
try:
    from urllib.request import HTTPSHandler
    context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
    context.options |= ssl.OP_NO_SSLv2
    context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_REQUIRED
    context.load_verify_locations(certifi.where(), None)
    https_handler = HTTPSHandler(context=context,  check_hostname=True)
    opener = urllib.request.build_opener(https_handler)
except ImportError:
    opener = urllib.request.build_opener()

opener.addheaders = [('User-agent',  YOUR_USER_AGENT)]
urllib.request.install_opener(opener)