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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2015-01-06 12:21:26 +0100
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2015-01-06 12:21:26 +0100
commit9d01717f373d0180e2804c827efbc40d8cf72063 (patch)
tree44e46d4f050a3a0b35418df9a94917b08a0bd80d /Lib/ssl.py
parent5819cfa5aa93e7fbb50fa70b1529d3d78e852fcb (diff)
downloadcpython-git-9d01717f373d0180e2804c827efbc40d8cf72063.tar.gz
Issue #20896, #22935: The ssl.get_server_certificate() function now uses the
ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23 protocol by default, not ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, for maximum compatibility and support platforms where ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3 support is disabled.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/ssl.py')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/ssl.py b/Lib/ssl.py
index 392603c56d..3b667ff01a 100644
--- a/Lib/ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/ssl.py
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ def PEM_cert_to_DER_cert(pem_cert_string):
d = pem_cert_string.strip()[len(PEM_HEADER):-len(PEM_FOOTER)]
return base64.decodebytes(d.encode('ASCII', 'strict'))
-def get_server_certificate(addr, ssl_version=PROTOCOL_SSLv3, ca_certs=None):
+def get_server_certificate(addr, ssl_version=PROTOCOL_SSLv23, ca_certs=None):
"""Retrieve the certificate from the server at the specified address,
and return it as a PEM-encoded string.
If 'ca_certs' is specified, validate the server cert against it.