Add clarity to the warning on certificate verification in urllib.
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
index 439482a..2a5ea71 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
@@ -26,11 +26,16 @@
.. seealso::
- The `Requests package <http://requests.readthedocs.org/>`_
+ The `Requests package <http://docs.python-requests.org/>`_
is recommended for a higher-level HTTP client interface.
-.. warning:: When opening HTTPS URLs, it does not attempt to validate the
- server certificate. Use at your own risk!
+.. versionchanged:: 2.7.9
+
+ For HTTPS URIs, :mod:`urllib` performs all the neccessary certificate and hostname checks by default.
+
+.. warning::
+
+ For Python versions earlier than 2.7.9, urllib does not attempt to validate the server certificates of HTTPS URIs. Use at your own risk!
High-level interface
@@ -142,7 +147,7 @@
:envvar:`no_proxy` environment variable.
.. versionchanged:: 2.7.9
- The *context* parameter was added.
+ The *context* parameter was added. All the neccessary certificate and hostname checks are done by default.
.. deprecated:: 2.6
The :func:`urlopen` function has been removed in Python 3 in favor