Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 8dffb76faacc by Antoine Pitrou in branch '2.7':
Issue #17739: fix the description of SSLSocket.getpeercert(binary_form=True)
for server sockets.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8dffb76faacc
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Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 908f1a61b907 by Antoine Pitrou in branch '3.3':
Issue #17739: fix the description of SSLSocket.getpeercert(binary_form=True)
for server sockets.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/908f1a61b907
New changeset 537c1f1ab53c by Antoine Pitrou in branch
Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
I have now fixed the documentation. Thank you!
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resolution: - fixed
stage: needs patch - committed/rejected
status: open - closed
versions: -Python 3.2
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New submission from David D Lowe:
The documentation for ssl.SSLSocket.getpeercert states:
If the binary_form parameter is True, and a certificate was provided, this
method returns the DER-encoded form of the entire certificate as a sequence
of bytes, or None if the peer did not provide a
Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
Thanks for reporting this. This is a documentation issue. As stated in the
OpenSSL docs:
Due to the protocol definition, a TLS/SSL server will always send a
certificate, if present. A client will only send a certificate when explicitly
requested to do so by
