[issue15740] test_ssl failure when cacert.org CA cert in system keychain on OSX

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Tue Aug 21 02:57:30 CEST 2012


Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> The failure seems to occur because the test assumes that the OpenSSL
> library either won't load a CA list at all when ca_cert is not
> specified, or that the default CA list doesn't contain the cacert.org one.

Well, OpenSSL should not implicitly load a CA list when not asked to.
If it does, it means Apple hacked their OpenSSL copy.
(I am further surprised that Apple includes cacert by default in the trusted certificates, while mainstream browsers like Firefox don't)

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