Table of Contents: Customizing SSL Certificates Overview Sample Code Customizing SSL Certificates Description: In an Enterprise environment, where we are decrypting traffic for inspection or using interanally signed certificates, I’m constaintly running into SSL Errors. They are generally legitimate and always have a reason, but to minimize this I either directly use a custom CA or I use something like the below where I can leverage publicly known Trusted CA’s with a Custom Trusted CA.

updated: 2024-05-18 Table of Contents: Handling Certificates with Python Using PIP Config Setting PIP Configuration PIP Configuration Locations Handling Certificates in code PEP 476 - Enabling Certificate Verification Handling Certificates with Python StackOverflow: How To Add A Custom CA Using PIP Config A quick way to set Python configuration is to set it in the pip.conf which contains NOTE: Python uses a hierarchy to search for the configuration file and what takes presedence.