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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.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
index eacde19..080d95d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst
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@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
instead of filenames. Some restrictions apply --- it can only open URLs for
reading, and no seek operations are available.
+.. warning:: When opening HTTPS URLs, it is not attempted to validate the
+ server certificate. Use at your own risk!
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+
High-level interface
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