I'm trying to use pika to connect to RabbitMQ using SSL (self signed). The problem is that the connect not failing if I do not give the certificate file to pika. This is my code: import pika import urllib connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.URLParameters("amqps://guest:guest@172.16.120.130:25585")) channel = connection.channel() channel.queue_declare(queue='hello') channel.basic_publish(exchange='', routing_key='hello', body='Hello World!') print(" [x] Sent 'Hello World!'") connection.close() And this is my rabbitmq.config: {tcp_listeners, []}, {ssl_listeners, [25585]}, {ssl_options, [{cacertfile, "/etc/rabbitmq/certs/cacert.pem"}, {certfile, "/etc/rabbitmq/certs/cert.pem"}, {keyfile, "/etc/rabbitmq/certs/key.pem"}, {verify, verify_peer}, {versions, ['tlsv1.2', 'tlsv1.1', 'tlsv1']}, {fail_if_no_peer_cert, false}]}, I have disabled TCP connection and enabled the SSL, why is the connection not failing? Continue reading...