ssl.SSLSocket

class ssl.SSLSocket(socket.socket)

SSL sockets provide the following methods of Socket Objects:

• accept()
• bind()
• close()
• connect()
• detach()
• fileno()
• getpeername(), getsockname()
• getsockopt(), setsockopt()
• gettimeout(), settimeout(), setblocking()
• listen()
• makefile()
• recv(), recv_into() (but passing a non-zero flags argument is not allowed)
• send(), sendall() (with the same limitation)
• sendfile() (but os.sendfile will be used for plain-text sockets only, else send() will be used)
• shutdown()

However, since the SSL (and TLS) protocol has its own framing atop of TCP, the SSL sockets abstraction can, in certain respects, diverge from the specification of normal, OS-level sockets. See especially the notes on non-blocking sockets.

Usually, SSLSocket are not created directly, but using the wrap_socket() function or the SSLContext.wrap_socket() method.