Issue 22960: xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy() should accept a custom SSL context parameter

When using xmlrpc.server it is possible (despite being intrusive) to use a custom SSL context, ie:

import ssl
import xmlrpc.server

rpc_server = xmlrpc.server.SimpleXMLRPCServer(...)
ssl_context = ssl.SSLContext()
# setup the context ...
rpc_server.socket = ssl_context.wrap_socket(rpc_server.socket, ...)

However it is not possible (unless using some ugly monkey patching, which I am ashamed of writing) to do the same for xmlrpc.client.

xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy() could accept a context constructor, and pass it to the SafeTransport instance, and then to the http.client.HTTPSConnection instance (https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.4/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py#l1338).

I would allow passing a SSL context more secure than the default one, and thus improve security.

Attached is a patch for 2.7

I suppose I should ask you to write a test. Of course, HTTPS doesn't seem to be tested at all right now (see the attractive "FIXME: mostly untested" comment in SafeTransport.) Maybe, it's easier now, though, using the code in Lib/test/ssl_servers.py?

New changeset 62bd574e95d5 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7':
add context parameter to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy (#22960)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/62bd574e95d5

Attached patch fixes it for Python3.

New changeset 4b00430388ad by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.4':
add context parameter to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy (#22960)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4b00430388ad

New changeset 2a126ce6f83e by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'default':
merge 3.4 (#22960)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2a126ce6f83e

Thank you

messages: + msg231884

versions: + Python 2.7