[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86441 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_nntplib.py

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:30:05 -0500
James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > Funny, it shows that the NNTP SSL tests don't check the certificate,
> > then.
> 
> Unsurprising, given that you need 140 lines of pretty non-obvious python code to do so...

You must have missed the new match_hostname() function:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/ssl.html#ssl.match_hostname

(its implementation is 50 lines rather than 140 lines, though)

Regards

Antoine.