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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-09-29 11:24:21 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-09-29 11:24:21 (GMT)
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Issue #9983: warn that urllib and httplib don't perform SSL certificate validation.
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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/http.client.rst12
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/urllib.request.rst4
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/http.client.rst b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
index 2a5c37c..9df61b7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.client.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ The module provides the following classes:
.. class:: HTTPSConnection(host, port=None, key_file=None, cert_file=None, strict=None[, timeout[, source_address]])
A subclass of :class:`HTTPConnection` that uses SSL for communication with
- secure servers. Default port is ``443``. *key_file* is the name of a PEM
- formatted file that contains your private key. *cert_file* is a PEM formatted
- certificate chain file.
+ secure servers. Default port is ``443``. *key_file* is the name of a PEM
+ formatted file that contains your private key, and *cert_file* is a PEM
+ formatted certificate chain file; both can be used for authenticating
+ yourself against the server.
- .. note::
-
- This does not do any certificate verification.
+ .. warning::
+ This does not do any verification of the server's certificate.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
*source_address* was added.
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index 1578968..4a897ad 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines functions and classes which help in
opening URLs (mostly HTTP) in a complex world --- basic and digest
authentication, redirections, cookies and more.
+.. warning:: When opening HTTPS (or FTPS) URLs, it is not attempted to
+ validate the server certificate. Use at your own risk!
+
+
The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: