urllib2 - ability skip certificate verification

Question

I need to simulate somehow option -k (vide --insecure to ignore SSL certificate verification) for curl but using urllib2. Any clues?

Answer 1

There is nothing special to do here. urllib2 does not do SSL certificate verification by default. There is a warning in the documentation http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html

Warning HTTPS requests do not do any verification of the server’s certificate.