SSL — An interface to the SSL-specific parts of OpenSSL¶
This module handles things specific to SSL. There are two objects defined: Context, Connection.
- OpenSSL.SSL.SSLv2_METHOD¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SSLv3_METHOD¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SSLv23_METHOD¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.TLSv1_METHOD¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.TLSv1_1_METHOD¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.TLSv1_2_METHOD¶
These constants represent the different SSL methods to use when creating a context object. If the underlying OpenSSL build is missing support for any of these protocols, constructing a Context using the corresponding *_METHOD will raise an exception.
- OpenSSL.SSL.VERIFY_NONE¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.VERIFY_PEER¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT¶
These constants represent the verification mode used by the Context object’s set_verify() method.
- OpenSSL.SSL.FILETYPE_PEM¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.FILETYPE_ASN1¶
File type constants used with the use_certificate_file() and use_privatekey_file() methods of Context objects.
- OpenSSL.SSL.OP_SINGLE_DH_USE¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE¶
Constants used with set_options() of Context objects.
When these options are used, a new key will always be created when using ephemeral (Elliptic curve) Diffie-Hellman.
- OpenSSL.SSL.OP_EPHEMERAL_RSA¶
Constant used with set_options() of Context objects.
When this option is used, ephemeral RSA keys will always be used when doing RSA operations.
- OpenSSL.SSL.OP_NO_TICKET¶
Constant used with set_options() of Context objects.
When this option is used, the session ticket extension will not be used.
- OpenSSL.SSL.OP_NO_COMPRESSION¶
Constant used with set_options() of Context objects.
When this option is used, compression will not be used.
- OpenSSL.SSL.OP_NO_SSLv2¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.OP_NO_SSLv3¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.OP_NO_TLSv1¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.OP_NO_TLSv1_1¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.OP_NO_TLSv1_2¶
Constants used with set_options() of Context objects.
Each of these options disables one version of the SSL/TLS protocol. This is interesting if you’re using e.g. SSLv23_METHOD to get an SSLv2-compatible handshake, but don’t want to use SSLv2. If the underlying OpenSSL build is missing support for any of these protocols, the OP_NO_* constant may be undefined.
- OpenSSL.SSL.SSLEAY_VERSION¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SSLEAY_CFLAGS¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SSLEAY_BUILT_ON¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SSLEAY_PLATFORM¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SSLEAY_DIR¶
Constants used with SSLeay_version() to specify what OpenSSL version information to retrieve. See the man page for the SSLeay_version() C API for details.
- OpenSSL.SSL.SESS_CACHE_OFF¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SESS_CACHE_CLIENT¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SESS_CACHE_SERVER¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SESS_CACHE_BOTH¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SESS_CACHE_NO_AUTO_CLEAR¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SESS_CACHE_NO_INTERNAL_LOOKUP¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SESS_CACHE_NO_INTERNAL_STORE¶
- OpenSSL.SSL.SESS_CACHE_NO_INTERNAL¶
Constants used with Context.set_session_cache_mode() to specify the behavior of the session cache and potential session reuse. See the man page for the SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode() C API for details.
New in version 0.14.
- OpenSSL.SSL.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER¶
An integer giving the version number of the OpenSSL library used to build this version of pyOpenSSL. See the man page for the SSLeay_version() C API for details.
- OpenSSL.SSL.ContextType¶
See Context.
- OpenSSL.SSL.ConnectionType¶
See Connection.
- class OpenSSL.SSL.Connection(context, socket)¶
A class representing SSL connections.
context should be an instance of Context and socket should be a socket [1] object. socket may be None; in this case, the Connection is created with a memory BIO: see the bio_read(), bio_write(), and bio_shutdown() methods.
- exception OpenSSL.SSL.Error¶
This exception is used as a base class for the other SSL-related exceptions, but may also be raised directly.
Whenever this exception is raised directly, it has a list of error messages from the OpenSSL error queue, where each item is a tuple (lib, function, reason). Here lib, function and reason are all strings, describing where and what the problem is. See err(3) for more information.
- exception OpenSSL.SSL.ZeroReturnError¶
This exception matches the error return code SSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN, and is raised when the SSL Connection has been closed. In SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0, this only occurs if a closure alert has occurred in the protocol, i.e. the connection has been closed cleanly. Note that this does not necessarily mean that the transport layer (e.g. a socket) has been closed.
It may seem a little strange that this is an exception, but it does match an SSL_ERROR code, and is very convenient.
- exception OpenSSL.SSL.WantReadError¶
The operation did not complete; the same I/O method should be called again later, with the same arguments. Any I/O method can lead to this since new handshakes can occur at any time.
The wanted read is for dirty data sent over the network, not the clean data inside the tunnel. For a socket based SSL connection, read means data coming at us over the network. Until that read succeeds, the attempted OpenSSL.SSL.Connection.recv(), OpenSSL.SSL.Connection.send(), or OpenSSL.SSL.Connection.do_handshake() is prevented or incomplete. You probably want to select() on the socket before trying again.
- exception OpenSSL.SSL.WantWriteError¶
See WantReadError. The socket send buffer may be too full to write more data.
- exception OpenSSL.SSL.WantX509LookupError¶
The operation did not complete because an application callback has asked to be called again. The I/O method should be called again later, with the same arguments.
Note
This won’t occur in this version, as there are no such callbacks in this version.
- exception OpenSSL.SSL.SysCallError¶
The SysCallError occurs when there’s an I/O error and OpenSSL’s error queue does not contain any information. This can mean two things: An error in the transport protocol, or an end of file that violates the protocol. The parameter to the exception is always a pair (errnum, errstr).
Context objects¶
Context objects have the following methods:
Session objects¶
Session objects have no methods.