pysvn.Client.callback_ssl_server_trust_prompt error

Question

I am getting the pysvn.Client.callback_ssl_server_trust_prompt required error when trying to commit. I understand it has to do with trust with the internet validation.

Here is the documentation, I just don't understand it.

pysvn.Client.callback_ssl_server_trust_prompt

import pysvn

def ssl_server_trust_prompt( trust_dict ):
    return retcode, accepted_failures, save

client = pysvn.Client()
client.callback_ssl_server_trust_prompt = ssl_server_trust_prompt

The callback_ssl_server_trust_prompt is called each time an HTTPS server presents a certificate and subversion is not sure if it should be trusted. callback_ssl_server_trust_prompt is called with information about the certificate in trust dict.

failures - int - a bitmask of failures

• [What do these bits mean?] hostname - string - the hostname the certificate was presented from finger_print - string - certificate finger print valid_from - string - valid from this ISO8601 date valid_until - string - valid util this ISO8601 date issuer_dname - stirng - the issued dname realm - string - the realm pysvn expect the callback_ssl_server_trust_prompt to return a tuple of three values (retcode, accepted_failures, save).

retcode - boolean, False if no username and password are available. True if subversion is to use the username and password. accepted_failures - int, the accepted failures allowed save - boolean, return True if you want subversion to remember the certificate in the configuration directory. return False to prevent saving the certificate.

Answer 1

When pysvn attempts to perform operations on a repository that you access using https, it needs to validate the servers identity. This is done by calling a function called callback_ssl_server_trust_prompt. By default this function is not defined. You, as the programmer, must supply the trust information, which you do by writing a function that looks at the information in the trust dictionary, and returns a tuple of 3 values (described in the third paragraph of the documentation).

Once you have written the function, you make it the callback_ssl_server_trust_prompt by assigning your function name to client.callback_ssl_server_trust_prompt