[New-bugs-announce] [issue29810] Rename ssl.Purpose.{CLIENT, SERVER}_AUTH

[Alex Gaynor]

New submission from Alex Gaynor:

The names are super misleading. First, they're written in a way that's the opposite of how people think about these things (CLIENT_AUTH -> server socket; SERVER_AUTH -> client socket). Second, they're misleading, you can have TLS which is *mutually* authenticated. Third, CLIENT_AUTH is very frequently used for a server socket where the client isn't authenticated (at the TLS layer) at all!

A simple fix would be to add: Purpose.{CLIENT,SERVER}_SOCKET and alias the old names to those values.

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messages: 289601
nosy: alex
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Rename ssl.Purpose.{CLIENT,SERVER}_AUTH

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