httpx-pkcs12 2.0.1

Addon which activates PKCS12 certificates usage with HTTPX client.

httpx-pkcs12

Enhanced PKCS12 (PFX/P12) certificate support for the HTTPX Python client. This package allows you to easily use PKCS12 certificates with HTTPX for client certificate authentication.

Features

• Simple API for loading PKCS12 certificates
• Support for certificate validation
• Extract certificate information
• Works with both file paths and certificate data
• Accepts passwords as strings or bytes
• Proper cleanup of temporary certificate files
• Comprehensive type hints

Installation

pip install httpx-pkcs12

Or with uv:

uv add httpx-pkcs12

Usage

Basic Usage

import httpx
from httpx_pkcs12 import create_ssl_context

# Load certificate from file
context = create_ssl_context(
    'path/to/your/cert.p12',
    password='your-secret-password'
)

# With async client
async with httpx.AsyncClient(verify=context) as client:
    response = await client.get('https://api.example.com')

# With sync client
with httpx.Client(verify=context) as client:
    response = client.get('https://api.example.com')

# Or for a one-off request
response = httpx.get('https://api.example.com', verify=context)

Advanced Usage

from httpx_pkcs12 import create_ssl_context, get_certificate_info

# Load certificate directly from bytes
with open('path/to/cert.p12', 'rb') as f:
    cert_data = f.read()

# Create context without validation (for expired certs)
context = create_ssl_context(
    cert_data,
    password='your-password',
    validate=False
)

# Get certificate information
not_before, not_after, common_name, alt_names = get_certificate_info(
    'path/to/cert.p12',
    password='your-password'
)

print(f"Certificate: {common_name}")
print(f"Valid from: {not_before}")
print(f"Valid until: {not_after}")
print(f"Alternative names: {', '.join(alt_names)}")

API Reference

create_ssl_context(pkcs12_data, password=None, validate=True)

Creates an SSL context from PKCS12 data.

• pkcs12_data: The PKCS12 certificate data as bytes or a path to the file
• password: Password to decrypt the PKCS12 data (string or bytes)
• validate: Whether to validate certificate expiration
• Returns: An SSLContext object configured with the certificate

load_pkcs12_from_file(certificate_path, password=None, validate=True)

Convenience function to create an SSL context from a PKCS12 certificate file.

• certificate_path: Path to the PKCS12 certificate file
• password: Password to decrypt the PKCS12 data
• validate: Whether to validate certificate expiration
• Returns: An SSLContext object configured with the certificate

get_certificate_info(pkcs12_data, password=None)

Extracts and returns information about the certificate.

• pkcs12_data: The PKCS12 certificate data or file path
• password: Password to decrypt the PKCS12 data
• Returns: Tuple with (not_valid_before, not_valid_after, common_name, alt_names)

Error Handling

The package raises the following exceptions:

• CertificateError: For certificate validation issues
• ValueError: For invalid input data
• IOError: For file operation failures

License

MIT