Disable SSL certificate validation in Python
I’m writing a script that connects to a bunch of URLs over HTTPS, downloads their SSL certificate and extracts the CN. Everything works except when I stumble on a site with an invalid SSL certificate. I absolutely do not care if the certificate is valid or not. I just want the CN but Python stubbornly refuses to extract the certificate information if the certificate is not validated. Is there any way to get around this profoundly stupid behavior?
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