Example code doing SSL using pycurl and CurlMulti

pycurl_curlmulti_ssl.py

# Example code doing SSL using pycurl and CurlMulti

import pycurl
import cStringIO

response_buffer = cStringIO.StringIO()
multi = pycurl.CurlMulti()
curl = pycurl.Curl()
curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, 'https://www.yammer.com')
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1)
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2)
curl.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, response_buffer.write)
curls = [curl]

for curl in curls:
    multi.add_handle(curl)

num_handles = len(curls)
while num_handles:
    # Do curlmulti perform until all writing is done.
    while True:
        ret, num_handles = multi.perform()
        print 'multi perform =', ret, num_handles
        if ret != pycurl.E_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM:
            break

    # Wait 1s...
    ret = multi.select(1)
    print 'multi select =', ret

    while True:
        # Check and handle reading
        num_q, ok_list, err_list = multi.info_read()
        print 'multi read =', num_q, ok_list, err_list

        for curl in ok_list:
            code = curl.getinfo(pycurl.HTTP_CODE)
            print 'code', code
            print 'response', response_buffer.getvalue()
            multi.remove_handle(curl)
        for handle in err_list:
            print 'fail...'
            multi.remove_handle(curl)
        if num_q == 0:
            break