[docs] [issue19508] Add warning that Python doesn't verify SSL certs by default

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Wed Nov 6 10:29:15 CET 2013


STINNER Victor added the comment:

> There is already an entire section about this:
> http://docs.python.org/dev/library/ssl.html#security-considerations

So we just need to add a link from http, ftp, imap, ... to this section?

Using only http://docs.python.org/dev/library/ftplib.html#ftp-tls-objects documentation, I don't see how to plug my own SSL validation code. I don't see any SSL context object or things like that.

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nosy: +haypo

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