
June 3, 2013
6:56 p.m.
On 06/03/2013 11:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:12:34 -0400 Donald Stufft wrote:
I worry with the current situation people will just use TLS connections without realizing it's not being verified and thinking they are "safe".
Yet there's quite a visible warning in the docs: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/urllib.request.html
As has been been mentioned elsewhere, at the very least we should change cadefault to True for secure-type connections. The dangerous/unexpected behavior should not be the default. -- ~Ethan~