<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 3, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Barry Warsaw <<a href="mailto:barry@python.org">barry@python.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 03, 2013, at 03:12 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">That's fine with me too. My only reason for wanting to use the system certs<br>first is so if someone has modified their system certs (say to include a<br>corporate cert) that it would ideally take affect for Python as well.<br></blockquote><br>This reminds me of one other thing. We have to make sure that the APIs<br>(e.g urlopen()) continue to allow us to use self-signed certificates, if for<br>no other reason than for testing purposes. OTOH, taking this away would be a<br>backward incompatible change in API so probably wouldn't happen anyway.<br><br>-Barry<br>_______________________________________________<br>Python-Dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Python-Dev@python.org">Python-Dev@python.org</a><br>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev<br>Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/donald%40stufft.io<br></blockquote></div><br><div>The other additional comment I'd like to throw in here is that if we don't bundle SSL certs I think we should still verify by default (which means HTTPS urls will throw an error by default if we can't locate a certificate store) because I think the risk to people unknowingly thinking that their HTTPS urls are protected are significant enough that this "error" shouldn't be silent by default.</div><div>
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