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r85101 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-09-29 13:24:21 +0200 (mer., 29 sept. 2010) | 3 lines
Issue #9983: warn that urllib and httplib don't perform SSL certificate validation.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
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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: