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pycurl_https_get_request_with_certifi_ssl.py

python

This quickstart performs a basic HTTP GET request to a URL and retrieves the resp

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pycurl_https_get_request_with_certifi_ssl.py
1import pycurl
2import certifi
3from io import BytesIO
4
5buffer = BytesIO()
6c = pycurl.Curl()
7c.setopt(c.URL, 'https://python.org/')
8c.setopt(c.WRITEDATA, buffer)
9
10# CAINFO is necessary for HTTPS on many platforms
11c.setopt(c.CAINFO, certifi.where())
12
13c.perform()
14c.close()
15
16body = buffer.getvalue()
17# Body is a byte string.
18# We must know the encoding in order to print it as a text string
19# such as utf-8 or cp1252
20print(body.decode('iso-8859-1'))