From 378e15d7abedb4a1990230d5e3c74d2390be96c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:43:33 -0600 Subject: document that cadefault does nothing now --- Doc/library/urllib.request.rst | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index ea9050f..249396e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -57,10 +57,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: point to a directory of hashed certificate files. More information can be found in :meth:`ssl.SSLContext.load_verify_locations`. - The *cadefault* parameter specifies whether to fall back to loading a - default certificate store defined by the underlying OpenSSL library if the - *cafile* and *capath* parameters are omitted. This will only work on - some non-Windows platforms. + The *cadefault* parameter is ignored. For http and https urls, this function returns a :class:`http.client.HTTPResponse` object which has the following -- cgit v0.12