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| author | Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> | 2021-03-27 14:20:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-03-27 14:20:11 (GMT) |
| commit | 9798cef92b882cd82a338d3368eaf3c4a32f5c2d (patch) | |
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| parent | 933dfd7504e521a27fd8b94d02b79f9ed08f4631 (diff) | |
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bpo-39616: clarify SSLContext.check_hostname effect (GH-18484)
It doesn't actually affect whether match_hostname() is called (it
never is in this context any longer), but whether hostname
verification occurs in the first place.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/ssl.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/ssl.rst b/Doc/library/ssl.rst index 1adac84..c0789ee 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ssl.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ssl.rst @@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@ to speed up repeated connections from the same clients. .. attribute:: SSLContext.check_hostname - Whether to match the peer cert's hostname with :func:`match_hostname` in + Whether to match the peer cert's hostname in :meth:`SSLSocket.do_handshake`. The context's :attr:`~SSLContext.verify_mode` must be set to :data:`CERT_OPTIONAL` or :data:`CERT_REQUIRED`, and you must pass *server_hostname* to |