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| author | Ben Bodenmiller <bbodenmiller@gmail.com> | 2021-01-19 18:20:49 -0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-01-19 18:20:49 -0800 |
| commit | 61bda3dfc8144bd9fe42546e1e391712f1450189 (patch) | |
| tree | 094d595d281d0ea4e6e954556ae1c2ff80fc215e /docs/html/reference | |
| parent | 48e2c62cddd7ad4e41e9be81894d8eb76fa2de4d (diff) | |
| download | pip-61bda3dfc8144bd9fe42546e1e391712f1450189.tar.gz | |
Simplify SSL doc - remove implementation details
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/html/reference/pip_install.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/html/reference/pip_install.rst b/docs/html/reference/pip_install.rst index df2eeba3e..7604d330b 100644 --- a/docs/html/reference/pip_install.rst +++ b/docs/html/reference/pip_install.rst @@ -562,14 +562,11 @@ SSL Certificate Verification ---------------------------- Starting with v1.3, pip provides SSL certificate verification over HTTP, to -prevent man-in-the-middle attacks against PyPI downloads. This is handled by -`requests <https://pypi.org/project/requests/>`_ which by default uses a -bundled CA certificate store provided by -`certifi <https://pypi.org/project/certifi/>`_ and does not use the system -certificate store. This may by overridden by using ``--cert`` option or by -using ``PIP_CERT`` environment variable; additional -`environment variables <https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/#verification>`_ -are also supported by ``requests``. +prevent man-in-the-middle attacks against PyPI downloads. This does not use +the system certificate store but instead uses a bundled CA certificate +store. The default bundled CA certificate store certificate store may be +overridden by using ``--cert`` option or by using ``PIP_CERT``, +``REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE``, or ``CURL_CA_BUNDLE`` environment variables. .. _`Caching`: |