Christian Heimes added the comment: The patch implements check_hostname in order to match SSL certs with the peer's hostname in ftp, imap, nntp, pop and smtp library. So far the patch needs more tests and doc updates.
I consider the new feature a security fix. Right now everybody with any valid TLS/SSL certificate can claim that its certificate is valid for 'smtp.google.com'. ---------- keywords: +patch nosy: +georg.brandl, larry Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32831/check_hostname.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19509> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
