[Python-Dev] Proposed schedule for 3.4.2

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Sep 8 19:46:40 CEST 2014


Well, get cracking then! :-)

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Shifts uncomfortably* it looks like presently there's not a good way to
> change anything about the SSL configuration for urllib.request.urlopen. It
> does not take a `context` argument, as the http.client API does:
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html#module-urllib.request
> and instead takes the cafile, capath, cadefault args.
>
> This would need to be updated first, once it *did* take such an argument,
> this would be accomplished by:
>
> context = ssl.create_default_context()
> context.verify_mode = CERT_OPTIONACERT_NONE
> context.verify_hostname = False
> urllib.request.urlopen("
> https://something-i-apparently-dont-care-much-about", context=context)
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I will pronounce for 3.4 once you point me to the documentation that
>> explains how to disable cert validation for an example program that
>> currently pulls down an https URL using urlopen. Without adding package
>> dependencies.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> Would you be willing to officially pronounce on PEP-476 in the context
>>> of 3.4.x,
>>> so we can get it into the release, and then we can defer on officially
>>> approving
>>> it for 2.7.X until we figure out all the moving pieces?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Alex
>>>
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