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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
index 1b90d32..35ea286 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
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@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
 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: