On 3/23/2014 11:37 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou
wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:29:07 +0000 Cory Benfield
wrote: This is an interesting idea. My biggest problem with it is that, at least with the ssl library, these aren’t server-only problems. If we suggest that they are, we end up in the same position we’re in right now (that is, hurting the internet).
For example, Python 2.7’s ssl module lacks the OP_NO_COMPRESSION option for OpenSSL,
This is easy to change in a bugfix release, though. Someone just has to open an issue and write a patch.
I already did open an issue and write a patch :)
There’s someone on that issue saying that flipping that without a way to flip it back would break their application.
http://bugs.python.org/issue20994, if anyone is looking for it. Eric.