[issue1589] New SSL module doesn't seem to verify hostname against commonName in certificate

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> >
> > It's more of a missing feature than a security issue in itself, although
> > the missing feature has to do with security.
> 
> Still it would be nice to see in python 2.x at some point don't you think?

Well, lots of things would be nice to see in python 2.x, but that's not
how things work :)
That said, someone else is maintaining a backport (thank him):
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports.ssl_match_hostname/

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