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python requests ssl verify false

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests SSL Verify False

When making requests to an HTTPS endpoint with Python's Requests library, you may encounter issues with SSL verification. By default, Requests verifies SSL certificates to ensure secure communication between the client and server. However, in some cases, you may need to disable SSL verification for testing or debugging purposes. One way to do this is by setting the "verify" parameter to False:


import requests

url = 'https://example.com'
response = requests.get(url, verify=False)

This will ignore SSL verification and allow the request to be made despite any certificate errors. However, it's important to note that turning off SSL verification can leave your application vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and other security risks. Only use this approach in a controlled testing environment and never in production.

If you need to temporarily disable SSL verification for a specific request, you can also use the following syntax:


response = requests.get(url, verify='/path/to/certfile')

This will use a custom certificate file for SSL verification instead of the system's default certificate store. This can be useful for testing purposes when you have a self-signed certificate that is not trusted by your system's default trust store.

It's important to remember to re-enable SSL verification once you're done testing:


import requests

# Disable SSL verification
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()
response = requests.get(url, verify=False)

# Re-enable SSL verification
requests.packages.urllib3.enable_warnings()
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