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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2019-06-03 12:02:11 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-06-03 12:02:11 -0700
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bpo-36868: Fix what's new for SSLContext.hostname_checks_common_name (GH-13248)
What's new now mentions SSLContext.hostname_checks_common_name instead of SSLContext.host_flags. https://bugs.python.org/issue36868 (cherry picked from commit 47eb2234061524562a4b484e3a395f4fdd6c1b76) Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
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@@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ including failing the host name check now raises
:exc:`~ssl.SSLCertVerificationError` and aborts the handshake with a proper
TLS Alert message. The new exception contains additional information.
Host name validation can be customized with
-:attr:`SSLContext.host_flags <ssl.SSLContext.host_flags>`.
+:attr:`SSLContext.hostname_checks_common_name <ssl.SSLContext.hostname_checks_common_name>`.
(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`31399`.)
.. note::
@@ -1320,8 +1320,7 @@ The ``ssl`` module no longer sends IP addresses in SNI TLS extension.
(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`32185`.)
:func:`~ssl.match_hostname` no longer supports partial wildcards like
-``www*.example.org``. :attr:`SSLContext.host_flags <ssl.SSLContext.host_flags>`
-has partial wildcard matching disabled by default.
+``www*.example.org``.
(Contributed by Mandeep Singh in :issue:`23033` and Christian Heimes in
:issue:`31399`.)