## Testing self-signed certificates and `load_verify_locations`
Obtain the badssl "self-signed" certificate in the correct form:
```sh
openssl s_client -servername self-signed.badssl.com -connect untrusted-root.badssl.com:443 < /dev/null | openssl x509 > self-signed.pem
```
Copy it and the script to CIRCUITPY:
```python
import os
import wifi
import socketpool
import ssl
import adafruit_requests
TEXT_URL = "https://self-signed.badssl.com/"
if not wifi.radio.ipv4_address:
wifi.radio.connect(os.getenv('WIFI_SSID'), os.getenv('WIFI_PASSWORD'))
pool = socketpool.SocketPool(wifi.radio)
context = ssl.create_default_context()
requests = adafruit_requests.Session(pool, context)
print(f"Fetching from {TEXT_URL} without certificate (should fail)")
try:
response = requests.get(TEXT_URL)
except Exception as e:
print(f"Failed: {e}")
else:
print(f"{response.status_code=}, should have failed with exception")
print("Loading server certificate")
with open("/self-signed.pem", "rb") as certfile:
context.load_verify_locations(cadata=certfile.read())
requests = adafruit_requests.Session(pool, context)
print(f"Fetching from {TEXT_URL} with certificate (should succeed)")
try:
response = requests.get(TEXT_URL)
except Exception as e:
print(f"Unexpected exception: {e}")
else:
print(f"{response.status_code=}, should be 200 OK")
```
Tested with badssl.com:
1. Get client certificates from https://badssl.com/download/
2. Convert public portion with `openssl x509 -in badssl.com-client.pem -out CIRCUITPY/cert.pem`
3. Convert private portion with `openssl rsa -in badssl.com-client.pem -out CIRCUITPY/privkey.pem` and the password `badssl.com`
4. Put wifi settings in CIRCUITPY/.env
5. Run the below Python script:
```py
import os
import wifi
import socketpool
import ssl
import adafruit_requests
TEXT_URL = "https://client.badssl.com/"
wifi.radio.connect(os.getenv('WIFI_SSID'), os.getenv('WIFI_PASSWORD'))
pool = socketpool.SocketPool(wifi.radio)
context = ssl.create_default_context()
requests = adafruit_requests.Session(pool, context)
print(f"Fetching from {TEXT_URL} without certificate (should fail)")
response = requests.get(TEXT_URL)
print(f"{response.status_code=}, should be 400 Bad Request")
input("hit enter to continue\r")
print("Loading client certificate")
context.load_cert_chain("/cert.pem", "privkey.pem")
requests = adafruit_requests.Session(pool, context)
print(f"Fetching from {TEXT_URL} with certificate (should succeed)")
response = requests.get(TEXT_URL)
print(f"{response.status_code=}, should be 200 OK")
```
Note: at this time, the ssl module on pico_w never verifies the server
certificate. This means it does not actually provide a higher security
level than regular socket / http protocols.
