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

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Jan 22 21:56:58 CET 2014

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

On 23 Jan 2014 00:39, "Benjamin Peterson" <benjamin at python.org> wrote: > Speaking of requests, I think another way to address this issue would be > import a requests-like APIs into the stdlib (something which should > happen anyway) and make that verify certificates by default. This would > address the casual urllib-type usecase of fetching files over http/ftp > etc. (I expect most people using their own protocols over raw TLS > already know to force certificate verification.)

Guido gave in principle approval for an asyncio backed requests clone as the preferred HTTP client API last year, but that's going to take someone to write and publish it if we're going to be able to include it in 3.5.

But requests is synchronous, so I'm not sure how much you can use of asyncio. I was thinking of something bolted onto urllib.

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