[Python-Dev] Request for pronouncement on PEP 493 (HTTPS verification backport guidance) (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri Nov 27 02:30:10 EST 2015


Nick Coghlan writes:

This is a significant rewrite that switches the PEP to a Standards Track PEP proposing two new features for 2.7.12+: an "ssl._verify_https_certificates()" configuration function, and a "PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY" environment variable (although writing them together like that makes me wonder if the latter should now be "PYTHONVERIFYHTTPS" instead).

+1 on the same order of "words" in the function name and the evnironment variable. I tend to prefer "ssl._https_verify_certificates" since these aren't "HTTPS certificates".



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