Christian Heimes added the comment:
In general we don't backport features.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466/ allows backports of network security
enhancements. However IP address validation is not a security enhancement. You
can either update to a new version of Python or role your
New submission from Mario Viapiano:
I need this patch to be available in python 2.7.13
https://bugs.python.org/issue23239
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components: Extension Modules
messages: 292468
nosy: emeve89
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: SSL match_hostname does not accept IP Address
