[issue36866] Certificate verification errors in urllib.request become URLError

Change by Christian Heimes : -- assignee: christian.heimes -> components: -SSL nosy: -christian.heimes versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue36866] Certificate verification errors in urllib.request become URLError

Christian Heimes added the comment: Update: 3.6 and earlier raised SSLError for untrusted or expired certs. Only hostname mismatch was not wrapped into URLError. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue36866] Certificate verification errors in urllib.request become URLError

Christian Heimes added the comment: Starting with 3.7, all OpenSSL and certificate-related exceptions are derived from SSLError. SSLError is a subclass of OSError. For backwards compatibility, SSLCertVerificationError is both a subclass of SSLError and ValueError. >>> ssl.CertificateError >

[issue36866] Certificate verification errors in urllib.request become URLError

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[issue36866] Certificate verification errors in urllib.request become URLError

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[issue36866] Certificate verification errors in urllib.request become URLError

New submission from Matt Martz : The behavior of how SSL certificate validation is handled was changed in https://bugs.python.org/issue31399 This introduced a new exception, ssl.SSLCertVerificationError, which is raised for any certificate validation error, instead of the previous exception