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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-09-19 13:19:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-09-19 13:19:21 (GMT) |
| commit | 792ff3e7beb1f15858a391d35a5cae3650afcc7a (patch) | |
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Mention that SSL sockets provide the basic socket API.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ssl.rst b/Doc/library/ssl.rst index ab7ffdb..4ab21d2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ssl.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ssl.rst @@ -325,6 +325,12 @@ Functions, Constants, and Exceptions SSL Sockets ----------- +SSL sockets provide the basic interface of :ref:`socket-objects`. However, +not all functionality is supported (for example, passing a non-zero ``flags`` +argument to :meth:`recv()` is not allowed). + +SSL sockets also have the following additional methods and attributes: + .. method:: SSLSocket.read(nbytes=1024, buffer=None) Reads up to ``nbytes`` bytes from the SSL-encrypted channel and returns them. |