[Python-Dev] PEP 476: Enabling certificate validation by default!

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le 31/08/2014 20:28, Paul Moore a écrit :
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> I can't see how that would be something the application would know.
> For example, pip allows me to specify an "alternate cert bundle" but
> not a single additional cert. So IIUC, I can't use my local index that
> serves https using a self-signed cert. I'd find it hard to argue that
> it's pip's responsibility to think of that use case - pretty much any
> program that interacts with a web service *might* need to interact
> with a self-signed dummy version, if only under test conditions.

Well, it's certainly pip's responsibility more than Python's. What would 
Python do? Provide a setting that would blindly add a cert for all uses 
of httplib?

pip knows about the use cases here, Python doesn't.

(perhaps you want to serve your local index using http, though)

Regards

Antoine.