From ea8676bf8b09003e29278af25e495050638fda47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:42:24 +0000
Subject: Lower the tone of the warning about SSL certificate validation.
---
Doc/library/urllib.request.rst | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index 4a897ad..84cb77b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@ 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:
@@ -23,6 +20,10 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions:
Open the URL *url*, which can be either a string or a
:class:`Request` object.
+ .. warning::
+ HTTPS (or FTPS) requests do not do any verification of the server's
+ certificate.
+
*data* may be a string specifying additional data to send to the
server, or ``None`` if no such data is needed. Currently HTTP
requests are the only ones that use *data*; the HTTP request will
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