[Python-Dev] Enable Hostname and Certificate Chain Validation (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 13:03:08 CET 2014

On 22 January 2014 11:29, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

1. To be "like the browser" we'd need to use the OS certificate store, which isn't the case on Windows at the moment (managing those certificate bundle files is most definitely not "like the browser" - I'd have no idea how to add a self-certificate to the bundle file embedded in pip, for example). Python 3.4 added the ability to use the OS cert store on Windows, see http://bugs.python.org/issue17134.

Brilliant. I didn't know that.

Will pip when run on Python 3.4 use the OS cert store? I guess the answer is probably "no" (but i'd love to be pleasantly surprised).

Paul

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