commit 77a75b3db1b3c63833067f6864e62dcf312ded05
author Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Mon Oct 13 11:54:50 2014 -0400
committer Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Mon Oct 13 11:54:50 2014 -0400
tree e6d5309cedc3e775649951e5debb4f7968aa6254
parent 5e7b54277451b1ffc31c7aafa7b01d72fad0e87c

note xmlrpclib doesn't verify certs (yet)

Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst b/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst
index 3cb19d1..6471ba2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@
    constructed data.  If you need to parse untrusted or unauthenticated data see
    :ref:`xml-vulnerabilities`.
 
+.. warning::
+
+   In the case of https URIS, :mod:`xmlrpc.client` does not do any verification
+   of the server's certificate.
+
 
 .. class:: ServerProxy(uri, transport=None, encoding=None, verbose=False, \
                        allow_none=False, use_datetime=False, \