Allows setting the SSL protocol suite (ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, etc.) for a subclass of httplib.HTTPSConnection (Python 2.6/2.7). Borrows from http://stackoverflow.com/a/18671399/306262 but uses subclassing instead of monkey- patching.

import https_shim
import ssl

conn = https_shim.HTTPSConnection('httpbin.org', '443', ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3)
conn.request('GET', '/get?foo=bar')
...

or

conn.https_shim.HTTPSConnection('httpbin.org', '443')
conn.connect(ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3)
...

See the tests if you want a few examples.

Note that this has only really been tested in Python 2.6 so far.

You can run the tests with

nosetests https_shim

If you pip install with the extra "test_support", the packages needed for running the tests will alsoo be installed (in particular, nose), e.g.,

pip install -e <path-to-https-shim>[test_support]

• 0.10.1 (2015/02/26)
  • adding support for Python 2.7
    • this library may not be necessary as of Python 2.7.9
    • tests require Python >= 2.7
• 0.10.0 (2013/12/19)
  • initial release with support for Python <= 2.6