It is not possible to use the API ignoring the SSL certificate of the dataverse server

[sergejzr]

Issue

Dear pyDataverse community,
at the moment it is not possible to use the API when the server is running with the self-signed certificate. While I found a workaround as listed below, it would be useful to switch the check off with a parameter of the client.

The solution is adopted from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15445981/how-do-i-disable-the-security-certificate-check-in-python-requests:

first we create an environment within that checks are disabled:

import warnings
import contextlib

import requests
from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning

old_merge_environment_settings = requests.Session.merge_environment_settings

@contextlib.contextmanager
def no_ssl_verification():
    opened_adapters = set()

    def merge_environment_settings(self, url, proxies, stream, verify, cert):
        # Verification happens only once per connection so we need to close
        # all the opened adapters once we're done. Otherwise, the effects of
        # verify=False persist beyond the end of this context manager.
        opened_adapters.add(self.get_adapter(url))

        settings = old_merge_environment_settings(self, url, proxies, stream, verify, cert)
        settings['verify'] = False

        return settings

    requests.Session.merge_environment_settings = merge_environment_settings

    try:
        with warnings.catch_warnings():
            warnings.simplefilter('ignore', InsecureRequestWarning)
            yield
    finally:
        requests.Session.merge_environment_settings = old_merge_environment_settings

        for adapter in opened_adapters:
            try:
                adapter.close()
            except:
                pass

Instantiate a client normally with:

from pyDataverse.api import NativeApi
api = NativeApi("https://fmydataverseserver.de", "9465673b-e56756-4ad7-5675672-4645d567567ee")

Now we can use it as follows:

with no_ssl_verification():
    resp = api.get_info_version()
    print(resp.json())
    print(resp.status_code)

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