[Python-Dev] PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY env var

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue May 12 13:19:55 CEST 2015


On 12 May 2015 at 21:17, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Both of those make sense to me as cases where the environment variable
> based security downgrade approach is the "least bad" answer available,
> which is why I eventually agreed it should be one of the
> recommendations in the PEP.

It occurs to me that the subtitle of PEP 493 could be "All software is
terrible, but it's often a system administrator's job to make it run
anyway" :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia


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