allow passing cert/ssl information to urllib2.urlopen and httplib.HTTPSConnection
This is basically a backport of issues #9003 and #22366.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ea649be..bca90b6 100644
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@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@
Library
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+- Issue #9003 and #22366: httplib.HTTPSConnection, urllib2.HTTPSHandler and
+ urllib2.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server certificate
+ checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS. This backport is part of PEP
+ 467.
+
- Issue #12728: Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase but
different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular expressions.