pycurl and SSL cert

Question

I am trying to write a pycurl script to access a secured site (HTTPS).

c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(pycurl.USERAGENT, \'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0)         


        

Answer 1

Have you read the cURL documentation about SSL certificates? This seems to directly address your question...in particular, item 2:

 2. Get a CA certificate that can verify the remote server and use the proper
    option to point out this CA cert for verification when connecting. For
    libcurl hackers: curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CAPATH, capath);

It looks like the pycurl module contains the CAPATH option, so this should be simple to implement in your code.