On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:00:02 -0700
Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> 
> I would strongly recommend against such a mechanism.
> 
> For what it's worth, Twisted simply unconditionally started verifying 
> certificates in 14.0 with no "disable" switch, and (to my knowledge) 
> literally no users have complained.

And how many people are using Twisted as an HTTPS client?
(compared to e.g. Python's httplib, and all the third-party libraries
building on it?)

> Furthermore, "disable verification" is a nonsensical thing to do with TLS.

It's not. For example, if you have an expired cert, all you can do
AFAIK is to disable verification.

Regards

Antoine.


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