Adam Goodman added the comment:
What Martin said is correct, IMO.
The actual problem I'd like to correct is: If I - for example - create an
HTTPSConnection with cert validation enabled, and set to use the default OS
trust mechanism, then the validation process should trigger Windows
Adam Goodman added the comment:
I just tried installing the root certificate update from KB931125 on a clean
VM. Now I have 369 trusted root CAs, according to certmgr.msc. (I imagine it
would be unreasonable to expect all windows python users to do this, though...)
The https request to
Changes by Adam Goodman :
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34405/win_ca_test.py
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New submission from Adam Goodman:
Starting with Vista, Microsoft began shipping only a very minimal set of root
CA certificates with Windows. Microsoft does trust many other authorities, but
for these, Windows relies on the "Update Root Certificates" feature:
http://technet.micros
