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authorMandeep Singh <daxlab@users.noreply.github.com>2017-11-26 22:31:27 (GMT)
committerMariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com>2017-11-26 22:31:27 (GMT)
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bpo-23033: Improve SSL Certificate handling (GH-937)
Wildcard is now supported in hostname when it is one and only character in the leftmost segment.
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@@ -429,6 +429,10 @@ Certificate handling
Matching of IP addresses, when present in the subjectAltName field
of the certificate, is now supported.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ Allow wildcard when it is the leftmost and the only character
+ in that segment.
+
.. function:: cert_time_to_seconds(cert_time)
Return the time in seconds since the Epoch, given the ``cert_time``