From 9de8e0494e18f04cca120755d19f0b724d9d65c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@inria.fr>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:00:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] a PlShell object, when plc_direct_access is False, is now
 created with SSL verification turned off

---
 sfa/planetlab/plshell.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sfa/planetlab/plshell.py b/sfa/planetlab/plshell.py
index a85157f7..f544f7a7 100644
--- a/sfa/planetlab/plshell.py
+++ b/sfa/planetlab/plshell.py
@@ -89,7 +89,12 @@ class PlShell:
                 'Username':   str(config.SFA_PLC_USER),
                 'AuthString': str(config.SFA_PLC_PASSWORD),
             }
-            self.proxy = xmlrpclib.Server(url, verbose=False, allow_none=True)
+            # minimal verification for backwards compat
+            import ssl
+            ssl_context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLS)
+            ssl_context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
+            self.proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(
+                url, verbose=False, allow_none=True, context=ssl_context)
 
     def __getattr__(self, name):
         def func(*args, **kwds):
-- 
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