HTTPS proxy tunneling with the ssl module
I'd like to manually (using the socket and ssl modules) make an HTTPS request through a proxy which itself uses HTTPS.
I can perform the initial CONNECT exchange just fine:
import ssl, socket
PROXY_ADDR = ("proxy-addr", 443)
CONNECT = "CONNECT example.com:443 HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n"
sock = socket.create_connection(PROXY_ADDR)
sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock)
sock.sendall(CONNECT)
s = ""
while s[-4:] != "\r\n\r\n":
s += sock.recv(1)
print repr(s)
The above code prints HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established plus some headers, which is what I expect. So now I should be ready to make the request, e.g.
sock.sendall("GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n")
but the above code returns
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Bad Request</h1>
<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.<br />
Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.<br />
</body></html>
This makes sense too, since I still need to do an SSL handshake with the example.com server to which I'm tunneling. However, if instead of immediately sending the GET request I say
sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock)
to do the handshake with the remote server, then I get an exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "so_test.py", line 18, in <module>
ssl.wrap_socket(sock)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ssl.py", line 350, in wrap_socket
suppress_ragged_eofs=suppress_ragged_eofs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ssl.py", line 118, in __init__
self.do_handshake()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ssl.py", line 293, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:480: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
So how can I do the SSL handshake with the remote example.com server?
EDIT: I'm pretty sure that no additional data is available before my second call to wrap_socket because calling sock.recv(1) blocks indefinitely.
Answer
This should work if the CONNECT string is rewritten as follows:
CONNECT = "CONNECT %s:%s HTTP/1.0\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n" % (server, port)
Not sure why this works, but maybe it has something to do with the proxy I'm using. Here's an example code:
from OpenSSL import SSL
import socket
def verify_cb(conn, cert, errun, depth, ok):
return True
server = 'mail.google.com'
port = 443
PROXY_ADDR = ("proxy.example.com", 3128)
CONNECT = "CONNECT %s:%s HTTP/1.0\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n" % (server, port)
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect(PROXY_ADDR)
s.send(CONNECT)
print s.recv(4096)
ctx = SSL.Context(SSL.SSLv23_METHOD)
ctx.set_verify(SSL.VERIFY_PEER, verify_cb)
ss = SSL.Connection(ctx, s)
ss.set_connect_state()
ss.do_handshake()
cert = ss.get_peer_certificate()
print cert.get_subject()
ss.shutdown()
ss.close()
Note how the socket is first opened and then open socket placed in SSL context. Then I manually initialize SSL handshake. And output:
HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established
<X509Name object '/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/CN=mail.google.com'>
It's based on pyOpenSSL because I needed to fetch invalid certificates too and Python built-in ssl module will always try to verify the certificate if it's received.