SSL Authentication using httplib with Certificates

import httplib
KEYFILE  = path of key file
CERTFILE = path of cert file
HOSTNAME = host

conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(
        HOSTNAME,
        port = port,
        key_file = KEYFILE,
        cert_file = CERTFILE
)
template = """soap template"""
conn.putrequest('POST', 'soapaction')
conn.putheader("User-Agent", "Python post")
conn.putheader("Content-type", "text/xml; charset=\"UTF-8\"")
conn.putheader("Content-length", "%d" % len(tem))
conn.putheader("SOAPAction", "\"\"")
conn.endheaders()
conn.send(template)
response = conn.getresponse()
print response.read()