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url: verify correctness of https server certificates (issue2407)

Pythons SSL module verifies that certificates received for HTTPS are valid
according to the specified cacerts, but it doesn't verify that the certificate
is for the host we connect to.

We now explicitly verify that the commonName in the received certificate
matches the requested hostname and is valid for the time being.

This is a minimal patch where we try to fail to the safe side, but we do still
rely on Python's SSL functionality and do not try to implement the standards
fully and correctly. CRLs and subjectAltName are not handled and proxies
haven't been considered.

This change might break connections to some sites if cacerts is specified and
the certificates (by our definition) isn't correct. The workaround is to
disable cacerts which in most cases isn't much worse than it was before with
cacerts.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Based on python's Tools/scripts/md5sum.py
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
# of the PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2, which is
# GPL-compatible.

import sys, os

try:
    from hashlib import md5
except ImportError:
    from md5 import md5

try:
    import msvcrt
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
    pass

for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        fp = open(filename, 'rb')
    except IOError, msg:
        sys.stderr.write('%s: Can\'t open: %s\n' % (filename, msg))
        sys.exit(1)

    m = md5()
    try:
        while 1:
            data = fp.read(8192)
            if not data:
                break
            m.update(data)
    except IOError, msg:
        sys.stderr.write('%s: I/O error: %s\n' % (filename, msg))
        sys.exit(1)
    sys.stdout.write('%s  %s\n' % (m.hexdigest(), filename))

sys.exit(0)