On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:54:33 +0100 Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > > If we agree to drop support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 1.0.1, then I can land > bunch of useful goodies like proper hostname verification [2], proper > fix for IP address in SNI TLS header [3], PEP 543 compatible Certificate > and PrivateKey types (support loading certs and keys from file and > memory) [4], and simplified cipher suite configuration [5]. I can > finally clean up _ssl.c during the beta phase, too.
Given the annoyance of supporting old OpenSSL versions, I'd say +1 to this. We'll have to deal with the complaints of users of Debian oldstable, CentOS 6 and RHEL 6, though. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
