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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-10-13 10:36:15 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-10-13 10:36:15 (GMT)
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Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
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@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
+ urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for
+ server certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
+
- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.