In chapter 2, the request threw an exception because the test site's certificate was updated
zhu-xiaoming opened this issue · comments
Python version: 3.10.1
System: macos 12.3.1
When python requests the website https://www.zggdwx.com through ssl, an exception will be thrown:
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:997)
I tried running the Install Certificates.command but it still didn't solve the problem.
Then try to open the website through firefox browser and find that there is a problem with the certificate:
After investigation, it was found that the https://www.zggdwx.com website has recently updated the certificate, and the issuer of the certificate is TrustAsia Technologies, Inc. which is not in the list of certificates trusted by mozilla (it looks like they are trying to request mozilla to add trust: link, but no success yet), so python throws an exception.
So I think it's better to put the "西游记" content of the website on github, and the test website in the course also requests github instead.
You're right, we should probably self-host Journey to the West.