[Python-Dev] SSL Certificate Validation (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jun 17 00:16:29 CEST 2009

If this isn't the place to ask these kinds of questions, I apologise. I can take the discussion elsewhere if I need to.

It really depends on what "these questions" are. If your question is "I have this patch, is it correct?", then the question is entirely appropriate. If it is "I just have barely looked at the API, can somebody please explain it all to me?", then this isn't appropriate for this list, and probably not appropriate elsewhere: anybody answering this question could just as well fix the original problem right away.

So please do try to find the answer for yourself, with the (little) direction I gave. If you find that it takes a lot of effort, then you'll probably have to accept the bug as-is, and live with it.

FWIW, I actually don't know the answer for sure, either, so I would have to research this myself, too. In any case, _ssl.c is not the place where any of the certificate validation actually happens - nor does it happen elsewhere in the Python source code, IIUC.

Regards, Martin

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