Verifying HTTPS certificates with urllib.request

Question

I am trying to open an https URL using the urlopen method in Python 3\'s urllib.request module. It seems to work fine, but the documentation warns that \"[i]f neither

Answer 1

Works in python 2.7 and above

context = ssl.create_default_context(cafile=certifi.where())
req = urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request(url, body, headers), context=context)