certifi-icpbr 2019.9.6

Drop-in Replacement to certifi that includes ICP Brasil root certificates

certifi + ICP Brasil

This package is meant to act as a drop-in replacement to certifi for use with requests that includes all of the same Mozilla root CA certificates, but also includes all of the ICP Brasil root CAs made available here.

The reason why this package exists is that for regulatory and political reasons, many Brazilian government websites use the country-specific ICP Brasil certification scheme, which is not distributed by default by major browsers and operating system distributions. This causes a lot of problems for developers that need to programatically interact with those services.

This is an example of the sort of issue you’ll encounter by default:

>>> import requests
>>> requests.get('https://portalunico.siscomex.gov.br/')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 603, in urlopen
    chunked=chunked)
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 344, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 843, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 370, in connect
    ssl_context=context)
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 355, in ssl_wrap_socket
    return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 412, in wrap_socket
    session=session
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 853, in _create
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 1117, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1056)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 449, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 641, in urlopen
    _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 399, in increment
    raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='portalunico.siscomex.gov.br', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1056)')))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 75, in get
    return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 60, in request
    return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 533, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 646, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/asieira/.virtualenvs/certifi_icpbr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 514, in send
    raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='portalunico.siscomex.gov.br', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1056)')))

Usage

The recommended way of using this package is to take advange of the verify parameter used throughout requests to allow the default root CAs file to be overridden:

>>> import requests
>>> import certifi_icpbr
>>> requests.get('https://portalunico.siscomex.gov.br/', verify=certifi_icpbr.where())
<Response [200]>

Alternatively, it is possible to monkey-patch requests so that it uses this package’s root CAs file by default. This is risky and can stop working in future versions ofrequests, so it is strongly recommended you use the first approach if possible. This is the same example using that approach:

>>> import certifi_icpbr
>>> certifi_icpbr.patch_requests()
>>> import requests
>>> requests.get('https://portalunico.siscomex.gov.br/')
<Response [200]>