#! /usr/bin/env python
# Taken from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-September/185353.html
import socket
from OpenSSL import SSL

def verify_cb(conn, cert, errnum, depth, ok):
    print 'Got certificate: %s' % cert.get_subject()
    return True

HOST = 'remotehost.domain.com'
PORT = 666 # or some evil ssl-enabled port
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
ctx = SSL.Context(SSL.SSLv3_METHOD)
ctx.set_verify(SSL.VERIFY_NONE, verify_cb)
ss = SSL.Connection(ctx,s)
print 'Python socket client. Connecting to: ', `HOST`, `PORT`, '.'
ss.connect((HOST, PORT))
print 'Writing query to server...'
ss.send("GET_VER")
print 'Reading response from server...'
data = ss.recv(2048)
s.close()
print 'Received', `data`