ignore certificate errors in python for synthetic canary's

Question

I'm trying to run a Cloudwatch > Synthetics Canaries (using Python 3.8) and getting this error.
'<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'

It strongly appears to be because the certificate being self signed. It would be nice if AWS fixed this on their end (adding support for self signed), but until that happens is there anyway in the aws webdriver to ignore certificate errors?

Runtime version syn-python-selenium-1.0 (Python 3.8, Selenium 3.141.0, Chromium 83.0.4103.0)

This is the canary script provided by AWS.

from aws_synthetics.selenium import synthetics_webdriver as syn_webdriver
from aws_synthetics.common import synthetics_logger as logger

def main():
    url = "xyz"

    # Set screenshot option
    takeScreenshot = False

    browser = syn_webdriver.Chrome()
    browser.get(url)

    if takeScreenshot:
        browser.save_screenshot("loaded.png")

    response_code = syn_webdriver.get_http_response(url)
    if not response_code or response_code < 200 or response_code > 299:
        raise Exception("Failed to load page!")
    logger.info("Canary successfully executed")

def handler(event, context):
    # user defined log statements using synthetics_logger
    logger.info("Selenium Python heartbeat canary")
    return main()

Answer

The syn-python-selenium-1.0 runtime version by default launches browser with the --ignore-certificate-errors option set. The reason for the error might be a different error. It might help to log the response prior to the "if not response_code or response_code < 200 or response_code > 299" check

Answer

What about 1.3? Does it also use --ignore-certificate-errors? I'm getting this error:
```
ERROR: 
```
I tried to use
```
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
browser = syn_webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
```
but I'm still getting the error above.

ignore certificate errors in python for synthetic canary's

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