[Python-Dev] PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY env var

[Donald Stufft]

If you control the app you don't need to do that. All relevant api accept the context parameter. The shims are only useful when you don't control the app. So an app shipping their own python doesn't fall under that. 

> On May 12, 2015, at 6:56 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12.05.2015 12:04, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 12, 2015, at 3:57 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In a user based installation (which most applications shipping
>>> their own Python installation are), you can always do this
>>> provided you can gain the application user permissions.
>> 
>> Of course, if the application is shipping it’s own Python then
>> it has to actually do something to update to 2.7.9 and it can
>> add it’s own option to disable TLS verification. I personally
>> think that the application providing that option is the *right* way
>> and all these other things are, at best, just temporary shims until
>> the applications do that.
> 
> I still believe that requiring to monkeypatch Python is a very poor
> approach in terms of quality software design. We can do better and
> we should.
> 
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