[issue12803] SSLContext.load_cert_chain() should accept a password argument
Adam Simpkins
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Aug 21 20:24:36 CEST 2011
Adam Simpkins <adam at adamsimpkins.net> added the comment:
> It seems a bit strange to me to accept string types or callable in the
> same argument. If it just supported strings, people could still write
> password=somefunction(), right?
The function is only called if the private key is encrypted and a
password is necessary. This allows the code to only prompt for a
password if it is actually needed.
This also parallels the OpenSSL C API, which only accepts a function to
get the password. I added support for plain strings as a convenience.
The string argument will be ignored if the file is not encrypted.
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