[issue9003] urllib.request and http.client should allow certificate checking

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

A big warning is now present (*) in the urllib and httplib documentation pages. Also, once issue1589 is fixed, we can go forward and make {http.client,urllib.request} check hostname and cert if the user gives the location of a bunch of CA certs.

(*) see e.g. http://docs.python.org/dev/library/urllib.request.html

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dependencies: +New SSL module doesn't seem to verify hostname against commonName in certificate
nosy: +Ryan.Tucker, ahasenack, db, devin, heikki, janssen, kiilerix, vila, zooko
stage:  -> needs patch
title: urllib about https behavior -> urllib.request and http.client should allow certificate checking
type:  -> feature request
versions: +Python 3.2, Python 3.3 -Python 3.1

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