[Python-Dev] Enable Hostname and Certificate Chain Validation

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:30:40 -0500
Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> I would like to propose that a backwards incompatible change be
> made to Python to make verification of hostname and certificate
> chain the default instead of requiring it to be opt in.
> 
> Python 3.4 has made great strides in making it easier for applications
> to simply turn on these settings, however many people are not aware
> at all that they need to opt into this. Most assume that it will operate
> similarly to their browser, curl, wget, etc

Python is not a Web client. Are you talking specifically about urllib?

Regards

Antoine.