Connecting to APNS for iPhone Using Python

Question

I'm trying to send push notifications to an iPhone using Python. I've exported my certificate and private key into a p12 file from keychain access and then converted it into pem file using the following command:

openssl pkcs12 -in cred.p12 -out cert.pem -nodes -clcerts

I'm using APNSWrapper in Python for the connection.

I run the following code:

deviceToken = 'Qun\xaa\xd ... c0\x9c\xf6\xca' 

# create wrapper
wrapper = APNSNotificationWrapper('/path/to/cert/cert.pem', True)

# create message
message = APNSNotification()
message.token(deviceToken)
message.badge(5)

# add message to tuple and send it to APNS server
wrapper.append(message)
wrapper.notify()

And then I get the error message:

ssl.SSLError: (1, '_ssl.c:485: 
error:14094416:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert certificate unknown')

Can anyone help me out on this?

Answer 1

I recently did this using Django - http://leecutsco.de/2009/07/14/push-on-the-iphone/

May be useful? It's making use of no extra libraries other than those included with Python already. Wouldn't take much to extract the send_message() method out.