Python socket server handle HTTPS request

Question

I wrote a socket server using Python 2.7 and the socket module.

Everything works as expected when I issue an HTTP request: the server accepts it and ans

Answer 1

I had the same problem. You have to configure "ssl" context within your code as such:

import socket, ssl

HOST = "www.youtube.com"
PORT = 443

context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s_sock = context.wrap_socket(s, server_hostname=HOST)
s_sock.connect((HOST, 443))
s_sock.send(" GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.youtube.com\r\n\r\n ".encode())

while True:
    data = s_sock.recv(2048)
    if ( len(data) < 1 ) :
        break
    print(data)

s_sock.close()

Answer 2

Try this. The module names have changed so that they are now part of the http.server module (part of a standard installation) - see the note at the top of the SimpleHTTPServer documentation for Python 2. The main problem, though, is that you need to get an SSL certificate to secure connections with (the easiest way I believe is OpenSSL).