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Hey guys,

I've been trying to establish an http connection with requests. The problem is that I'm getting an ssl exceptions error:

requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.thesite.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /?msg=login_err (Caused by SSLError(CertificateError("hostname 'www.thesite.org' doesn't match either of '*.webfaction.com', 'webfaction.com'",),))

So the ssl is improperly setup, so I'm not touching it. I've been trying to connect with http.

import requests

s = requests.session()

url = 'http://www.thesite.org/login.py'
data = {'username':'myusername', 'passwd':'mypassword'}
s.post(url, data)
s.get(url)

Is there any way to force the http connection?

So far I've tried verify=False... and I get a similar error about exceeding redirects.

Any ideas?

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NVM

So if people come across this issue in the future, the answer is to specify the port in the URL.

so the above code will work with the line:

url = 'http://www.thesite.org/login.py:80'

Happy coding

Does that actually fix it, though?  Not all servers accept https connections on port 80, and your protocol is also http...
I'd sniff the network if I were you (on windows, that's easy with Fiddler) and verify that the connection is actually encrypted.