How to enable HTTPS on Python 2.7 web.py? - python-2.7

Question

I am using Python 2.7.5 with web.py (v0.38) installed on a Linux machine. Below is my code in the most basic form (webhooks.py)
#!/usr/bin/python
import web
urls = ('/.*','WebHooks')
app = web.application(urls, globals())
class WebHooks:
def POST(self):
raw_payload = web.data()
json_encode = json.loads(raw_payload)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run()
I execute python webhooks.py 9999
It opens up a local port http://0.0.0.0:9999/
My issue: I have read the documentation located here and I am stumped. Would somebody be able to help me open an HTTPS URL? https://0.0.0.0:9999/
What I have tried
Add the following into my code for testing:
response = app.request("/.*", https=True)
I would get an error: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'request'
I solved that issue with pip install urllib.py and then adding import urllib to the top of my code but I ended up with a bunch of errors:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/application.py", line 239, in process
return self.handle()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/application.py", line 230, in handle
return self._delegate(fn, self.fvars, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/application.py", line 461, in _delegate
cls = fvars[f]
KeyError: u'WebHooks'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/application.py", line 239, in process
return self.handle()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/application.py", line 229, in handle
fn, args = self._match(self.mapping, web.ctx.path)
AttributeError: 'ThreadedDict' object has no attribute 'path'

Answer 1

You're headed down the wrong path, but not to worry. The response = app.request("/.*", https=True) bit you're trying has to do with your application making an https request, rather then handling an https request.
See http://webpy.org/cookbook/ssl
Internally, web.py uses a CherryPyWSGIServer. To handle https, you need to provide the server with an ssl_certificate and ssl_key. Very simply, add a few lines before you invoke app.run():
if __name__ == '__main__':
from web.wsgiserver import CherryPyWSGIServer
ssl_cert = '/path-to-cert.crt'
ssl_key = '/path-to-cert.key'
CherryPyWSGIServer.ssl_certificate = ssl_cert
CherryPyWSGIServer.ssl_private_key = ssl_key
app.run()
Of course, in a full solution, you'll probably want apache or nginx to handle the https portion, but the above is perfect for small applications and testing.