Writing a simple HTTPS server code with Python and OpenSSL

You need a secure web server code written in Python. You already have your SSL keys and certificate files ready with you.

Getting ready

You need to install the third-party Python module, pyOpenSSL. This can be grabbed from PyPI (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyOpenSSL). Both on Windows and Linux hosts, you may need to install some additional packages, which are documented at http://pythonhosted.org//pyOpenSSL/.

How to do it...

After placing a certificate file on the current working folder, we can create a web server that makes use of this certificate to serve encrypted content to the clients.

Listing 4.10 explains the code for a secure HTTP server as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook -- Chapter - 4 
# This program requires Python 3.5.2 or any later version 
# It may run on any other version with/without modifications. 
# 
# Follow the comments inline to make it run on Python 2.7.x. 
# Requires pyOpenSSL...