Disable ssl certificate verification in mechanization

Question

I am new to python and I tried to access the website using mechanize.

br = mechanize.Browser() r=br.open("https://172.22.2.2/") 

Which gives me the following error:

 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in <module> br.open("https://172.22.2.2/") File "/home/freeza/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 203, in open return self._mech_open(url, data, timeout=timeout) File "/home/freeza/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open response = UserAgentBase.open(self, request, data) File "/home/freeza/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 193, in open response = urlopen(self, req, data) File "/home/freeza/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 344, in _open '_open', req) File "/home/freeza/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/home/freeza/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1170, in https_open return self.do_open(conn_factory, req) File "/home/freeza/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1118, in do_open raise URLError(err) URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:590)> 

Can you tell me how to disable ssl certificate validation in mechanization in python?

Also can you tell me how to enable the certificate if I receive it? Thanks

Answer 1

Add this code snippet to disable HTTPS certificate verification before br.open ().

 import ssl try: _create_unverified_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context except AttributeError: # Legacy Python that doesn't verify HTTPS certificates by default pass else: # Handle target environment that doesn't support HTTPS verification ssl._create_default_https_context = _create_unverified_https_context 

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