In article <4ca3a46b.4080...@animats.com>,
John Nagle wrote:
>
>http://bugs.python.org/issue1589
>(2010: Developer "Bill Jansen" in denial, others disagree.
>Currently being debated. See bug tracker.)
While I agree with you that SSL ended up being rather a cluster, I think
that using scare quot
On 9/29/2010 3:51 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:41:15 -0700
John Nagle wrote:
The really stupid thing about the current SSL module is that it
accepts a file of root certificates as a parameter, but ignores it.
That's not true. You have to pass CERT_OPTIONAL or CERT_REQUIRE
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:41:15 -0700
John Nagle wrote:
>
> The really stupid thing about the current SSL module is that it
> accepts a file of root certificates as a parameter, but ignores it.
That's not true. You have to pass CERT_OPTIONAL or CERT_REQUIRED as a
parameter (CERT_NONE is though).
R
In article <4ca3a46b.4080...@animats.com>,
John Nagle wrote:
> We've been through this. Too many times.
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1114345
> (2005: Broken in Python 2.2, eventually fixed)
>
> http://www.justinsamuel.com/2008/12/25/the-importance-of-validating-ssl-certif
> icates/
> (
On 9/29/2010 1:18 PM, Ned Deily wrote:
In article,
Velko Ivanov wrote:
I've always wandered why HTTPSConnection does not validate
certificates?
It is fairly simple to use the SSL socket's validation:
[...]
Perhaps you can write up your example as a documentation patch to the
http.client d
In article ,
Velko Ivanov wrote:
> I've always wandered why HTTPSConnection does not validate
> certificates?
>
> It is fairly simple to use the SSL socket's validation:
[...]
Perhaps you can write up your example as a documentation patch to the
http.client documentation page and submit it t
Hello,
I've always wandered why HTTPSConnection does not validate
certificates?
It is fairly simple to use the SSL socket's validation:
> class HTTPSConnection(HTTPConnection):
> """This class allows
communication via SSL.
> It is a copy of the http.client.HTTPSConnection
with added certifi
