MacSesh 0.2.1

Tools for letting the macOS Keychain verify certs for python requests

MacSesh

This package allows requests to verify certs with the macOS keychain, rather than using certifi. It also includes some tools for easily hooking up a SecureTransport adapter (a la Pip) and then later undoing all of the sneaky infiltrations required to set this up.

Which certs?

It uses any of the trusted certs from keychains included in the current user's keychain search list, as well as the system roots. Typically, this is the user's default at ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, the system keychain at /Library/Keychains/System.keychain, and the System Roots keychain at /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain.

To achieve this, one of three different strategies can be employed:

1. KeychainSession uses a custom SSLContext, requests Adapter, and requests Session, and injects the SSLContext into urllib3. This approach is the recommendation.
2. SecureTransportSession uses the urllib3 contrib module for injecting SecureTransport equivalents into stock urllib3. While this approach uses more of the native networking framework, it also seems to be written primarily with the goal of solving the issues with macOS and aging OpenSSL versions to ensure that Macs could still use pip. Therefore, it's not entirely feature-complete in providing a full requests Adapter. It's definitely worth experimenting with.
3. SimpleKeychainSession circumvents the normal flow of session startup, and tells the SSLContext to load its trust information early; in this case from certs dumped from the keychain.

Example Usage:

>>> import macsesh
>>> sesh = macsesh.KeychainSession()
>>> response = sesh.get('https://nethack.org')

If you want to use the "basic" requests API without creating a session:

>>> macsesh.inject_into_requests()
>>> requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco')  # Uses keychain

Advanced

If for some reason you want to revert to "normal" requests (probably using certifi), in the same python process, you'll need to remove this module's injected stuff from urllib3 or requests.

Remove the SSLContext if you used any of the Sessions: macsesh.extract_from_urllib3() Clean up after using the "basic" API: macsesh.extract_from_requests()

Any certs added to the keychains after starting a session will not be available. Digging down in and updating the SSLContext is rough; just make a new session if you have this need!