On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:55 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2019-02-18, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hmm. From looking at your full log (THANK YOU for posting that, btw - > > so many people don't), it looks like an issue with certificate > > checking. Might be a bug in the test itself. Does the same thing > > happen with a more recent Python build? It could be a weirdness with > > specific versions of OpenSSL. > > If your app involves SSL and certificates, it's never going to work > right anyway. Even if it does, nobody will ever use it correctly. > Even if they do, whoever created the certificates will have screwed > them up. Even if they didn't, they'll forget to renew/replace them > before they expire. Even if your app and certificates are OK, the app > on the other end of the network connection won't work right. > > I'm only half joking... >
No, I think you've accurately described internet security. With one omission: Nobody knows that it isn't working correctly. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
