[Python-Dev] PEP 476: Enabling certificate validation by default!

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Sun Aug 31 22:15:10 CEST 2014


Le 31/08/2014 21:12, Paul Moore a écrit :
> On 31 August 2014 19:37, Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:
>> Well, it's certainly pip's responsibility more than Python's. What would
>> Python do? Provide a setting that would blindly add a cert for all uses of
>> httplib?
>
> That's more or less my point, pip doesn't have that much better idea
> than Python. I was talking about putting the cert in my local cert
> store, so that *I* can decide, and applications don't need to take
> special care to allow me to handle this case.

What do you call your local cert store?

If you mean the system cert store, then that will affect all users.

Regards

Antoine.




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