[Python-Dev] Enable Hostname and Certificate Chain Validation

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/22/2014 9:25 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:

> Awesome, It looks like I’ll be writing a PEP to handle this, I wasn’t
> sure if it needed one or not.

Definitely. I think the transition from insecure by default to secure by 
default is somewhat comparable to the transition from ascii by default 
to unicode by default. I suspect more than one PEP will be needed for 
various aspects.

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Terry Jan Reedy