[issue17483] Can not tell urlopen not to check the hostname for https connections.

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Antoine - I approached it from idea that check_hostname "as a setting"
> is allowed from HTTPSConnection (http/client.py) but it not
> controllable from urllib. Is there a case where it is useful in
> HTTPSConnection, but it should not be from urllib?

HTTPSConnection is lower-level, so it makes sense to allow more
deviations there. That's why HTTPSConnection also takes the context
directly.

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