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| author | Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> | 2010-10-01 23:42:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> | 2010-10-01 23:42:24 +0000 |
| commit | ea8676bf8b09003e29278af25e495050638fda47 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e409cada57d9f3c0f9a33156301b4767e067851 /Doc/library/urllib.request.rst | |
| parent | 70a9993bfde88b9f36ea25d3c09e8d8fe082e6c9 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-ea8676bf8b09003e29278af25e495050638fda47.tar.gz | |
Lower the tone of the warning about SSL certificate validation.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/urllib.request.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index 4a897ad8e6..84cb77b55a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -11,9 +11,6 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines functions and classes which help in opening URLs (mostly HTTP) in a complex world --- basic and digest authentication, redirections, cookies and more. -.. warning:: When opening HTTPS (or FTPS) URLs, it is not attempted to - validate the server certificate. Use at your own risk! - The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: @@ -23,6 +20,10 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: Open the URL *url*, which can be either a string or a :class:`Request` object. + .. warning:: + HTTPS (or FTPS) requests do not do any verification of the server's + certificate. + *data* may be a string specifying additional data to send to the server, or ``None`` if no such data is needed. Currently HTTP requests are the only ones that use *data*; the HTTP request will |