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| author | Cory Benfield <lukasaoz@gmail.com> | 2015-03-03 19:11:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Cory Benfield <lukasaoz@gmail.com> | 2015-03-03 19:11:51 +0000 |
| commit | df09aec17822bf11a8d9dab0cc40758cacae1c2c (patch) | |
| tree | cb064a323b0ff83af1ff6af4381c57393f64f5ae /docs | |
| parent | 6ac8d2ce303b649d3742ba2f567975d9cf58d2a2 (diff) | |
| download | urllib3-df09aec17822bf11a8d9dab0cc40758cacae1c2c.tar.gz | |
Rename new warning to InsecurePlatformWarning.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/security.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/security.rst b/docs/security.rst index c1f7376a..881730e7 100644 --- a/docs/security.rst +++ b/docs/security.rst @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ warnings to your own log:: Capturing the warnings to your own log is much preferred over simply disabling the warnings. -SSLConfigurationWarning +InsecurePlatformWarning ----------------------- .. versionadded:: 1.11 @@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ SSLConfigurationWarning Certain Python platforms (specifically, versions of Python earlier than 2.7.9) have restrictions in their ``ssl`` module that limit the configuration that ``urllib3`` can apply. In particular, this can cause HTTPS requests that would -succeed on more featureful platforms to fail. +succeed on more featureful platforms to fail, and can cause certain security +features to be unavailable. If you encounter this warning, it is strongly recommended you upgrade to a newer Python version, or that you use pyOpenSSL as described in the |