[issue23857] [RFE] Make default HTTPS certificate verification setting configurable

2015-04-03 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I do not understand why the vendors want to re-introduce a security hole. I understand that it causes issues using legacy software to communicate with sites that don't verify, but I think that the correct solution to this is disabling verification on a per-tr

[issue23857] [RFE] Make default HTTPS certificate verification setting configurable

2015-04-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan added the comment: Clarified the issue heading a bit, and cc'ed in the main Debian/Ubuntu folks. Matthias, Barry - the attached patch here is aimed at making PEP 476 a bit more distro friendly by moving the "opt out" to a configuration file rather than requiring monkeypatching in