How do I disable the ssl check in python 3.x?

Question

I\'m using urllib.request.urlretrieve to download a file to local.

urllib.request.urlretrieve(url_string,file_name)

It throws error:

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Answer 1

Function urllib.request.urlretrieve doesn't accept any SSL options but urllib.request.urlopen does.

However instead creating a secure SSL context with ssl.create_default_context() and making it insecure you can create an insecure context with ssl.SSLContext():

This:

ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
ctx.check_hostname = False
ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

is equivalent to:

ctx = ssl.SSLContext()

(For Python < 3.5.3 use ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1))

Which makes a nice one-liner:

import ssl
import urllib.request

with urllib.request.urlopen("https://wrong.host.badssl.com/", context=ssl.SSLContext()) as url:
    print(url.read())