Proper SSL implementation, including optional certificate verification

docs/connection.rst

@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ Connection Selector
    :members:
 
 
-Connection
-----------
+Urllib3HttpConnection (default connection_class)
+------------------------------------------------
 
-.. autoclass:: Connection
+.. autoclass:: Urllib3HttpConnection
    :members:

elasticsearch/connection/http_requests.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ except ImportError:
     REQUESTS_AVAILABLE = False
 
 from .base import Connection
-from ..exceptions import ConnectionError, ImproperlyConfigured, ConnectionTimeout
+from ..exceptions import ConnectionError, ImproperlyConfigured, ConnectionTimeout, SSLError
 from ..compat import urlencode
 
 class RequestsHttpConnection(Connection):
@@ -16,8 +16,12 @@ class RequestsHttpConnection(Connection):
     :arg http_auth: optional http auth information as either ':' separated
         string or a tuple
     :arg use_ssl: use ssl for the connection if `True`
+    :arg verify_certs: whether to verify SSL certificates
+    :arg ca_certs: optional path to CA bundle. By default standard requests'
+        bundle will be used.
     """
-    def __init__(self, host='localhost', port=9200, http_auth=None, use_ssl=False, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, host='localhost', port=9200, http_auth=None,
+        use_ssl=False, verify_certs=False, ca_certs=None, **kwargs):
         if not REQUESTS_AVAILABLE:
             raise ImproperlyConfigured("Please install requests to use RequestsHttpConnection.")
 
@@ -32,7 +36,11 @@ class RequestsHttpConnection(Connection):
             's' if use_ssl else '',
             host, port, self.url_prefix
         )
-
+        self.session.verify = verify_certs
+        if ca_certs:
+            if not verify_certs:
+                raise ImproperlyConfigured("You cannot pass CA certificates when verify SSL is off.")
+            self.session.verify = ca_certs
 
     def perform_request(self, method, url, params=None, body=None, timeout=None, ignore=()):
         url = self.base_url + url
@@ -44,6 +52,9 @@ class RequestsHttpConnection(Connection):
             response = self.session.request(method, url, data=body, timeout=timeout or self.timeout)
             duration = time.time() - start
             raw_data = response.text
+        except requests.exceptions.SSLError as e:
+            self.log_request_fail(method, url, body, time.time() - start, exception=e)
+            raise SSLError('N/A', str(e), e)
         except requests.Timeout as e:
             self.log_request_fail(method, url, body, time.time() - start, exception=e)
             raise ConnectionTimeout('TIMEOUT', str(e), e)

elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import time
 import urllib3
-from urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError, SSLError as UrllibSSLError
 
 from .base import Connection
-from ..exceptions import ConnectionError, ConnectionTimeout
+from ..exceptions import ConnectionError, ImproperlyConfigured, ConnectionTimeout, SSLError
 from ..compat import urlencode
 
 class Urllib3HttpConnection(Connection):
@@ -13,10 +13,17 @@ class Urllib3HttpConnection(Connection):
     :arg http_auth: optional http auth information as either ':' separated
         string or a tuple
     :arg use_ssl: use ssl for the connection if `True`
+    :arg verify_certs: whether to verify SSL certificates
+    :arg ca_certs: optional path to CA bundle. See
+        http://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#using-certifi-with-urllib3
+        for instructions how to get default set
     :arg maxsize: the maximum number of connections which will be kept open to
         this host.
     """
-    def __init__(self, host='localhost', port=9200, http_auth=None, use_ssl=False, maxsize=10, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, host='localhost', port=9200, http_auth=None,
+            use_ssl=False, verify_certs=False, ca_certs=None,  maxsize=10,
+            **kwargs):
+
         super(Urllib3HttpConnection, self).__init__(host=host, port=port, **kwargs)
         self.headers = {}
         if http_auth is not None:
@@ -25,10 +32,17 @@ class Urllib3HttpConnection(Connection):
             self.headers = urllib3.make_headers(basic_auth=http_auth)
 
         pool_class = urllib3.HTTPConnectionPool
+        kw = {}
         if use_ssl:
             pool_class = urllib3.HTTPSConnectionPool
 
-        self.pool = pool_class(host, port=port, timeout=self.timeout, maxsize=maxsize)
+            if verify_certs:
+                kw['cert_reqs'] = 'CERT_REQUIRED'
+                kw['ca_certs'] = ca_certs
+            elif ca_certs:
+                raise ImproperlyConfigured("You cannot pass CA certificates when verify SSL is off.")
+
+        self.pool = pool_class(host, port=port, timeout=self.timeout, maxsize=maxsize, **kw)
 
     def perform_request(self, method, url, params=None, body=None, timeout=None, ignore=()):
         url = self.url_prefix + url
@@ -50,6 +64,9 @@ class Urllib3HttpConnection(Connection):
             response = self.pool.urlopen(method, url, body, retries=False, headers=self.headers, **kw)
             duration = time.time() - start
             raw_data = response.data.decode('utf-8')
+        except UrllibSSLError as e:
+            self.log_request_fail(method, full_url, body, time.time() - start, exception=e)
+            raise SSLError('N/A', str(e), e)
         except ReadTimeoutError as e:
             self.log_request_fail(method, full_url, body, time.time() - start, exception=e)
             raise ConnectionTimeout('TIMEOUT', str(e), e)

elasticsearch/exceptions.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ class ImproperlyConfigured(Exception):
     Exception raised when the config passed to the client is inconsistent or invalid.
     """
 
+
 class ElasticsearchException(Exception):
     """
     Base class for all exceptions raised by this package's operations (doesn't
@@ -61,6 +62,10 @@ class ConnectionError(TransportError):
             self.error, self.info.__class__.__name__, self.info)
 
 
+class SSLError(ConnectionError):
+    """ Error raised when encountering SSL errors.  """
+
+
 class ConnectionTimeout(ConnectionError):
     """ A network timeout. """
     def __str__(self):
@@ -79,9 +84,19 @@ class ConflictError(TransportError):
 class RequestError(TransportError):
     """ Exception representing a 400 status code. """
 
+
+class AuthenticationException(TransportError):
+    """ Exception representing a 401 status code. """
+
+
+class AuthorizationException(TransportError):
+    """ Exception representing a 403 status code. """
+
 # more generic mappings from status_code to python exceptions
 HTTP_EXCEPTIONS = {
     400: RequestError,
+    401: AuthenticationException,
+    403: AuthorizationException,
     404: NotFoundError,
     409: ConflictError,
 }