New submission from Dariusz Suchojad: Hello,
I'd like to suggest adding a simple note to SSLSocket.getpeercert stating that it will always return None if do_handshake has never been called. This is not the default behaviour, by default SSLSocket.__init__'s do_handshake_on_connect is True so .getpeercert nicely returns a cert (assuming the usual caveats - the other side offers a certificate and cert_reqs is not CERT_NONE). However, I've just been debugging a someone else's server and I spent some time figuring out why client certificates weren't available - turned out this was because do_handshake was never called (PySSL_SSLdo_handshake in _ssl.c). Adding a single-sentence line will certainly be very helpful. Many thanks! ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 198425 nosy: docs@python, dsuch priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Document SSLSocket.getpeercert always returns None without do_handshake type: enhancement _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19095> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
