[Python-Dev] SSL certs (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Wed Sep 19 03:29:23 CEST 2007


I guess something we should think about is whether to introduce RFC 2818 hostname checking into urllib.urlopen() and similar utilities. Presumably one would add an optional arg specifying a file full of root certs to validate against, and if that arg was present, would retrieve the hostname info from the validated cert, and do the client-side check.

Bill



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