[Python-Dev] PEP476: Enabling certificate validation by default (original) (raw)

Alex Gaynor alex.gaynor at gmail.com
Sat Sep 20 00:34:08 CEST 2014

Pushed a new version which I believe adresses all of these. I added an example of opting-out with urllib.urlopen, let me know if there's any other APIs you think I should show an example with.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

The PEP doesn't specify any of the API changes for Python 2.7. I feel it is necessary for the PEP to show a few typical code snippets using urllib in Python 2.7 and how one would modify these in order to disable the cert checking.

There are also a few typos; especially this paragraph puzzled me: This will be acheived by adding a new ssl.createdefaulthttpscontext function, which is the same as ssl.createdefault. http.client can then replace it's usage of ssl.createstdlibcontext with the new ssl.createdefaulthttpscontext. (1) spelling: it's achieved, not achieved (2) method name: it's ssl.createdefaultcontext, not ssl.createdefault (3) There's not enough whitespace (in the rendered HTML on legacy.python.org) before http.client -- I kept reading it as "... which is the same as ssl.createdefault.http.client ..." (4) There's no mention of the Python 2 equivalent of http.client. Finally, it's kind of non-obvious in the PEP that this affects Python 2.7.X (I guess the one after the next) as well as 3.4 and 3.5. On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I've just updated the PEP to reflect the API suggestions from Nick, and the fact that the necessary changes to urllib were landed. I think this is ready for pronouncement, Guido? Cheers, Alex

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