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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-11-05 22:18:28 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-11-05 22:18:28 (GMT)
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@@ -488,6 +488,12 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
5-tuple), and :data:`ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER` (an integer). (Added by
Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8321`.)
+* :class:`http.client.HTTPSConnection`, :class:`urllib.request.HTTPSHandler`
+ and :func:`urllib.request.urlopen` now take optional arguments to allow for
+ server certificate checking against a set of Certificate Authorities,
+ as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
+ (Added by Antoine Pitrou, :issue:`9003`.)
+
* Instances of :class:`unittest.TestCase` have two new methods
:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertWarns` and :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertWarnsRegexp`
to check that a given warning type was triggered by the code under test::