diff --git a/authserv/test/test_integration.py b/authserv/test/test_integration.py
index 5b4290ebb7291905e363e8e6da5dbff13999bf43..9104858c3d605f80947b87b488e79a4d7a20fe90 100644
--- a/authserv/test/test_integration.py
+++ b/authserv/test/test_integration.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from gevent import subprocess
 import httplib
 import os
 import socket
+import ssl
 import sys
 import time
 import urllib
@@ -22,8 +23,10 @@ def _relpath(x):
 
 class HTTPSClientAuthHandler(urllib2.HTTPSHandler):
 
-    def __init__(self, cert, key):
-        urllib2.HTTPSHandler.__init__(self)
+    def __init__(self, cert, key, cafile):
+        urllib2.HTTPSHandler.__init__(self, context=ssl.create_default_context(
+            purpose=ssl.Purpose.SERVER_AUTH,
+            cafile=cafile))
         self.key = key
         self.cert = cert
 
@@ -34,7 +37,8 @@ class HTTPSClientAuthHandler(urllib2.HTTPSHandler):
         return self.do_open(self.getConnection, req)
 
     def getConnection(self, host, timeout=300):
-        return httplib.HTTPSConnection(host, key_file=self.key, cert_file=self.cert)
+        return httplib.HTTPSConnection(host, key_file=self.key, cert_file=self.cert,
+                                       context=self._context)
 
 
 class SSLServerTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -67,14 +71,14 @@ class SSLServerTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
             print >>sys.stderr, 'starting HTTP server on port', cls.port
             server.run(
-                app, '127.0.0.1', cls.port, cls.ssl_ca,
+                app, 'localhost', cls.port, cls.ssl_ca,
                 cls.ssl_cert, cls.ssl_key, cls.dhparams)
 
         gevent.spawn(_runserver)
         gevent.sleep(1)
 
         cls.opener = urllib2.build_opener(
-            HTTPSClientAuthHandler(cls.client_cert, cls.client_key))
+            HTTPSClientAuthHandler(cls.client_cert, cls.client_key, cls.ssl_ca))
 
     @classmethod
     def teardown_class(cls):
@@ -82,7 +86,7 @@ class SSLServerTest(unittest.TestCase):
             os.kill(cls.pid, 15)
 
     def test_python_request_failure_without_cert(self):
-        req = urllib2.Request('https://127.0.0.1:%d%s' % (self.port, URL),
+        req = urllib2.Request('https://localhost:%d%s' % (self.port, URL),
                               data=urllib.urlencode(
                                   {'username': 'user2',
                                    'password': 'pass2',
@@ -91,7 +95,7 @@ class SSLServerTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertRaises(urllib2.URLError, urllib2.urlopen, req)
 
     def test_python_auth_simple_ok(self):
-        req = urllib2.Request('https://127.0.0.1:%d%s' % (self.port, URL),
+        req = urllib2.Request('https://localhost:%d%s' % (self.port, URL),
                               data=urllib.urlencode(
                                   {'username': 'user2',
                                    'password': 'pass2',