On 22.01.2014 12:45, Nick Coghlan wrote: > We also have to account for the fact that an awful lot of Python > applications are corporate ones relying on perimeter defence for > security, or private CAs, or just self-signed certificates that their > users have already accepted. There are limits to the amount of > backwards incompatible change users will tolerate, and at this point > in time we're still trying to get people to accept proper Unicode > support.
Side note: Users can simple add self-signed certs to OpenSSL's cert store and get validation for free. It's possible to do that with an environment variable, too. But I recommend against the environment variable because you may overwrite to operating store. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
