recv() method of SSLsocket class in Python

Method Name:

recv

Method Signature:

recv(bufsize[, flags])

Parameters:

bufsize – Number of bytes to read

flags – The flag parameter of recv() function as defined in the Unix manual. Default value is zero.

Return Value:

The data received over an SSLSocket instance as bytes.

Overview:

The receive method returns the decrypted data from the socket as a bytes object.
In one go, it reads up to bufsize bytes.

Example:

# Example Python program that reads data from

# an HTTPS server using SSLSocket.recv() method

import socket

import ssl

import platform

# SSL Context creation

contextInstance = ssl.SSLContext();

contextInstance.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_REQUIRED;

# Check for OS X platform

if platform.system().lower() == 'darwin':

import certifi

import os

# Load the CA certificates used for validating the certificate of the server

contextInstance.load_verify_locations(cafile=os.path.relpath(certifi.where()),

capath=None,

cadata=None);

# Create a socket

socketInstance = socket.socket();

# Making the socket TLS compliant

secureSocketInstance = contextInstance.wrap_socket(socketInstance, do_handshake_on_connect=False);

# Connect to the HTTPS server

secureSocketInstance.connect(("example.com", 443));

# Complete the TLS handshake

secureSocketInstance.do_handshake();

# Form a HTTP request and send it to the server

HTTPMessage = 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n';

bytes = str.encode(HTTPMessage);

secureSocketInstance.sendall(bytes);

# Receive data from server

while(True):

data = '';

data = secureSocketInstance.recv(1024);

if(data==b''):

print("Connection closed");

break;

print(data);

# TLS shutdown handshake

activeSocket = secureSocketInstance.unwrap();

# Close the sockets

secureSocketInstance.close();

socketInstance.close();

activeSocket.close();

Output:

b'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nAccept-Ranges: bytes\r\nAge: 322835\r\nCache-Control: max-age=604800\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\nDate: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 10:38:23 GMT\r\nEtag: "3147526947"\r\nExpires: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:38:23 GMT\r\nLast-Modified: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:18:26 GMT\r\nServer: ECS (nyb/1D2C)\r\nVary: Accept-Encoding\r\nX-Cache: HIT\r\nContent-Length: 1256\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n'

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Recv() method of SSLsocket class in Python