[Python-Dev] Request for pronouncement on PEP 493 (HTTPS verification backport guidance)

[Nick Coghlan]

On 27 November 2015 at 17:42, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Nick Coghlan writes:
>
>  > This is a significant rewrite that switches the PEP to a Standards
>  > Track PEP proposing two new features for 2.7.12+: an
>  > "ssl._verify_https_certificates()" configuration function, and a
>  > "PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY" environment variable (although writing them
>  > together like that makes me wonder if the latter should now be
>  > "PYTHONVERIFYHTTPS" instead).
>
> +1 on the same order of "words" in the function name and the
> evnironment variable.  I tend to prefer
> "ssl._https_verify_certificates" since these aren't "HTTPS
> certificates".

Ah, yes, that would make sense, so I've just pushed an update that
switches the function name order to match the environment variable.

Cheers,
Nick.

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