[Pywebsvcs-talk] Client certificates with https URLs

[David E. K. <dek...@lb...>]

Hi folks,

Just recently I needed to talk to a web service (Condor SOAP) that 
requires the client to provide a certificate when using
https URLs (SSL).

For the edification of the list, here's a small fragment that shows how 
to provide a cert and key for the SSL
connection:


       kw = {}
       kw['transport'] = httplib.HTTPSConnection  ## only necessary if 
not specifying an https URL
       kw['transdict'] = {'key_file':  
'/home/portnoy/u5/dek/.globus/userkey.pem',
                          'cert_file': 
'/home/portnoy/u5/dek/.globus/usercert.pem'}
       self._collectorLocator = 
condorCollector_services.condorCollectorLocator()
       self._collector = 
self._collectorLocator.getcondorCollectorPortType(self._url, **kw)

The 'transdict' is passed in as the keyword arguments to the transport, 
which in
the https/SSL case will be an httplib.HTTPSConnection.

I've successfully tested this with the Condor SOAP web service.

Dave