name : get_python3_https.py #! /usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # vi:ts=4:et import pycurl import certifi from io import BytesIO buffer = BytesIO() c = pycurl.Curl() c.setopt(c.URL, 'http://pycurl.io/') c.setopt(c.WRITEDATA, buffer) c.setopt(c.CAINFO, certifi.where()) c.perform() c.close() body = buffer.getvalue() # Body is a byte string. # We have to know the encoding in order to print it to a text file # such as standard output. print(body.decode('iso-8859-1'))