Ignore SSL Cert Errors

 A point release in python turned on cert validation (yay). This broke the script (boo). Ignore cert validation, as the only point of SSL here is to prevent caching, not confidentiality.

NetworkScanners/BwAuthority/bwauthority_child.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import ConfigParser
 import sqlalchemy
 import sets
 import re
+import ssl
 import random
 
 sys.path.append("../../")
@@ -134,23 +135,31 @@ def http_request(address):
   ''' perform an http GET-request and return 1 for success or 0 for failure '''
 
   request = urllib2.Request(address)
+  try:
+    context = ssl._create_unverified_context()
+  except:
+    context = None
   request.add_header('User-Agent', user_agent)
 
   try:
-    reply = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+    if context:
+      reply = urllib2.urlopen(request, context=context)
+    else:
+      reply = urllib2.urlopen(request)
     decl_length = reply.info().get("Content-Length")
     read_len = len(reply.read())
     plog("DEBUG", "Read: "+str(read_len)+" of declared "+str(decl_length))
     return 1
-  except (ValueError, urllib2.URLError):
+  except (ValueError, urllib2.URLError) as e:
     plog('ERROR', 'The http-request address ' + address + ' is malformed')
+    plog('ERROR', str(e))
     return 0
-  except (IndexError, TypeError):
+  except (IndexError, TypeError) as e:
     plog('ERROR', 'An error occured while negotiating socks5 with Tor')
     return 0
   except KeyboardInterrupt:
     raise KeyboardInterrupt
-  except socks.Socks5Error, e:
+  except socks.Socks5Error as e:
     if e.value[0] == 6:
       plog("NOTICE", "Tor timed out our SOCKS stream request.")
     else: