From ea8676bf8b09003e29278af25e495050638fda47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc 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 -- cgit v0.12