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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2013-09-29 17:50:53 (GMT)
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Issue #19095: SSLSocket.getpeercert() now raises ValueError when the SSL handshake hasn't been done.
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@@ -659,7 +659,8 @@ SSL sockets also have the following additional methods and attributes:
.. method:: SSLSocket.getpeercert(binary_form=False)
If there is no certificate for the peer on the other end of the connection,
- returns ``None``.
+ return ``None``. If the SSL handshake hasn't been done yet, raise
+ :exc:`ValueError`.
If the ``binary_form`` parameter is :const:`False`, and a certificate was
received from the peer, this method returns a :class:`dict` instance. If the
@@ -716,6 +717,9 @@ SSL sockets also have the following additional methods and attributes:
The returned dictionary includes additional items such as ``issuer``
and ``notBefore``.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+ :exc:`ValueError` is raised when the handshake isn't done.
+
.. method:: SSLSocket.cipher()
Returns a three-value tuple containing the name of the cipher being used, the