added setting to disable SSL certificate verification

CHANGELOG.asciidoc

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/compare/v1.0.0.dev3\...master[Check
  * added `max-event-queue-length` setting. ({pull}67[#67])
  * changed name that the agent reports itself with to the APM server from `elasticapm-python` to `python`. This aligns the Python agent with other languages. ({pull}104[#104])
  * changed Celery integration to store the task state (e.g. `SUCCESS` or `FAILURE`) in `transaction.result` ({pull}100[#100])
+ * added setting to disable SSL certificate verification ({pull}108[#108])
  * BREAKING: renamed `server` configuration variable to `server_url` to better align with other language agents ({pull}105[#105]) 
  * BREAKING: removed the old and unused urllib2-based HTTP transport, and renamed the urllib3 transport ({pull}107[#107])
 

docs/configuration.asciidoc

@@ -352,3 +352,17 @@ If set to `True`, the agent won't send any events to the APM server, independent
 
 If set to `True`, the agent won't instrument any code.
 This disables most of the tracing functionality, but can be useful to debug possible instrumentation issues.
+
+
+[float]
+[[config-verify-server-cert]]
+==== `verify_server_cert`
+|============
+| Environment                 | Django/Flask   | Default
+| `ELASTIC_APM_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT`  | `VERIFY_SERVER_CERT` | `True`
+|============
+
+By default, the agent verifies the SSL certificate if you use an HTTPS connection to the APM server.
+Verification can be disabled by changing this setting to `False`.
+
+NOTE: SSL certificate verification is only available in Python 2.7.9+ and Python 3.4.3+.

elasticapm/base.py

@@ -307,7 +307,9 @@ def _get_transport(self, parsed_url):
                              'process. PID: %s', os.getpid())
             return self._transport_class.sync_transport(parsed_url)
         if parsed_url not in self._transports:
-            self._transports[parsed_url] = self._transport_class(parsed_url)
+            self._transports[parsed_url] = self._transport_class(
+                parsed_url, verify_server_cert=self.config.verify_server_cert
+            )
         return self._transports[parsed_url]
 
     def _filter_exception_type(self, data):

elasticapm/conf/__init__.py

@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ class Config(_ConfigBase):
     secret_token = _ConfigValue('SECRET_TOKEN')
     debug = _BoolConfigValue('DEBUG', default=False)
     server_url = _ConfigValue('SERVER_URL', default='http://localhost:8200', required=True)
+    verify_server_cert = _BoolConfigValue('VERIFY_SERVER_CERT', default=True)
     include_paths = _ListConfigValue('INCLUDE_PATHS')
     exclude_paths = _ListConfigValue('EXCLUDE_PATHS', default=['elasticapm'])
     filter_exception_types = _ListConfigValue('FILTER_EXCEPTION_TYPES')

elasticapm/transport/asyncio.py

@@ -13,10 +13,13 @@ class AsyncioHTTPTransport(HTTPTransportBase):
     HTTP Transport ready for asyncio
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, parsed_url):
-        super(AsyncioHTTPTransport, self).__init__(parsed_url)
+    def __init__(self, parsed_url, **kwargs):
+        super(AsyncioHTTPTransport, self).__init__(parsed_url, **kwargs)
         loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
-        self.client = aiohttp.ClientSession(loop=loop)
+        session_kwargs = {'loop': loop}
+        if not self._verify_server_cert:
+            session_kwargs['connector'] = aiohttp.TCPConnector(verify_ssl=False)
+        self.client = aiohttp.ClientSession(**session_kwargs)
 
     async def send(self, data, headers, timeout=None):
         """Use synchronous interface, because this is a coroutine."""

elasticapm/transport/http.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import logging
 import os
+import ssl
 
 import certifi
 import urllib3
@@ -19,18 +20,21 @@ class Transport(HTTPTransportBase):
 
     scheme = ['http', 'https']
 
-    def __init__(self, parsed_url):
-        kwargs = {
+    def __init__(self, parsed_url, **kwargs):
+        super(Transport, self).__init__(parsed_url, **kwargs)
+        pool_kwargs = {
             'cert_reqs': 'CERT_REQUIRED',
             'ca_certs': certifi.where(),
             'block': True,
         }
+        if not self._verify_server_cert:
+            pool_kwargs['cert_reqs'] = ssl.CERT_NONE
+            pool_kwargs['assert_hostname'] = False
         proxy_url = os.environ.get('HTTPS_PROXY', os.environ.get('HTTP_PROXY'))
         if proxy_url:
-            self.http = urllib3.ProxyManager(proxy_url, **kwargs)
+            self.http = urllib3.ProxyManager(proxy_url, **pool_kwargs)
         else:
-            self.http = urllib3.PoolManager(**kwargs)
-        super(Transport, self).__init__(parsed_url)
+            self.http = urllib3.PoolManager(**pool_kwargs)
 
     def send(self, data, headers, timeout=None):
         if timeout is None:

elasticapm/transport/http_base.py

@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@
 class HTTPTransportBase(Transport):
     scheme = ['http', 'https']
 
-    def __init__(self, parsed_url):
+    def __init__(self, parsed_url, verify_server_cert=True):
         self.check_scheme(parsed_url)
 
         self._parsed_url = parsed_url
         self._url = parsed_url.geturl()
+        self._verify_server_cert = verify_server_cert
 
     def send(self, data, headers, timeout=None):
         """
@@ -26,8 +27,8 @@ class AsyncHTTPTransportBase(AsyncTransport, HTTPTransportBase):
     async_mode = True
     sync_transport = HTTPTransportBase
 
-    def __init__(self, parsed_url):
-        super(AsyncHTTPTransportBase, self).__init__(parsed_url)
+    def __init__(self, parsed_url, **kwargs):
+        super(AsyncHTTPTransportBase, self).__init__(parsed_url, **kwargs)
         if self._url.startswith('async+'):
             self._url = self._url[6:]
         self._worker = None

tests/asyncio/test_asyncio_http.py

@@ -86,3 +86,25 @@ async def test_send_timeout(mock_client):
     with pytest.raises(TransportException) as excinfo:
         await transport.send(b'data', {}, timeout=0.0001)
     assert 'Connection to APM Server timed out' in str(excinfo.value)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_ssl_verify_fails(httpsserver):
+    from elasticapm.transport.asyncio import AsyncioHTTPTransport
+    from elasticapm.transport.base import TransportException
+
+    httpsserver.serve_content(code=202, content='', headers={'Location': 'http://example.com/foo'})
+    transport = AsyncioHTTPTransport(urlparse(httpsserver.url))
+    with pytest.raises(TransportException) as exc_info:
+        await transport.send(b'x', {})
+    assert 'CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED' in str(exc_info)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_ssl_verify_disable(httpsserver):
+    from elasticapm.transport.asyncio import AsyncioHTTPTransport
+
+    httpsserver.serve_content(code=202, content='', headers={'Location': 'http://example.com/foo'})
+    transport = AsyncioHTTPTransport(urlparse(httpsserver.url), verify_server_cert=False)
+    url = await transport.send(b'x', {})
+    assert url == 'http://example.com/foo'

tests/client/client_tests.py

@@ -371,6 +371,12 @@ def test_client_uses_sync_mode_when_master_process(is_master_process):
     assert transport.async_mode is False
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('elasticapm_client', [{'verify_server_cert': False}], indirect=True)
+def test_client_disables_ssl_verification(elasticapm_client):
+    assert not elasticapm_client.config.verify_server_cert
+    assert not elasticapm_client._get_transport(compat.urlparse.urlparse('https://example.com'))._verify_server_cert
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('elasticapm_client', [{'transactions_ignore_patterns': [
         '^OPTIONS',
         'views.api.v2'

tests/transports/test_urllib3.py

@@ -96,3 +96,19 @@ def test_header_encodings():
     for k, v in kwargs['headers'].items():
         assert isinstance(k, compat.binary_type)
         assert isinstance(v, compat.binary_type)
+
+
+def test_ssl_verify_fails(httpsserver):
+    httpsserver.serve_content(code=202, content='', headers={'Location': 'http://example.com/foo'})
+    transport = Transport(compat.urlparse.urlparse(httpsserver.url))
+    with pytest.raises(TransportException) as exc_info:
+        url = transport.send(compat.b('x'), {})
+    assert 'CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED' in str(exc_info)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.filterwarnings('ignore:Unverified HTTPS')
+def test_ssl_verify_disable(httpsserver):
+    httpsserver.serve_content(code=202, content='', headers={'Location': 'https://example.com/foo'})
+    transport = Transport(compat.urlparse.urlparse(httpsserver.url), verify_server_cert=False)
+    url = transport.send(compat.b('x'), {})
+    assert url == 'https://example.com/foo'