[issue13856] xmlrpc / httplib changes to allow for certificate verification

[Antoine Pitrou]

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

> Antoine - I fail to recollect, but is there any reason for the clients 
> in the stdlib are not carrying a ca_file and doing a certificate
> validation of the server connection?

Well, if you are a security expert you can volunteer to maintain a trusted certificates' file in the Python repository :) I think nobody else amongst us is qualified.

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