Error on invalid TLS certificates

[soraxas]

Error on invalid TLS certificates

[soraxas]

In general, you wouldn't want to connect to a webpage with an invalid TLS certificate (this is universal with almost all networking tools, though often them might have a special flag that you can force it to skip verification).

Are there any legit or general reason that you would want an invalid TLS certificate? (as they are necessary in modern days for a reason)

[JonSnowWhite]

I completely agree with you there. In my case, lecture videos (for a security lecture, ironically) were only accessible through a echo360 page that lacked a proper certificate.

While it should be the standard for every webpage to have a proper certificate, the sad reality still is that some do not. And, in my case I had to access the content with or without the tool and around the invalid certificate anyways. That is why I thought of an optional setting to also download videos from websites without a proper TLS certificate.

[soraxas]

@JonSnowWhite Thanks for your message. Yeah, I understand your situation and I agree that it's hard to have a way around it.

I am guessing we can have a flag that skips TLS certificate checking when supplied by adding the option to the selenium driver. If you have it working would you want to make a simple PR that add such an option to the argparse and modify selenium accordingly? As I neither have such a site to test on nor am I inclined to work on it blindly. But I am happy to review and accept a working PR if you sned in one.

[JonSnowWhite]

Thank you! It might take a while until I find time to make a pull request but I will keep it in mind!