New submission from Jeffrey Walton:
The Python wiki page on SSL states (https://wiki.python.org/moin/SSL):
To validate that a certificate matches requested site,
you need to check commonName field in the subject of
the certificate.
I don't think its quite correct.
Both the IETF
Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
Thanks for the report; your remarks are obviously true. Unfortunately, the wiki
is community-maintained, there's not much point in reporting bugs here about
it. That page's contents look very outdated, by the way.
The official documentation for the ssl module
Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
I'm closing this issue since it isn't part of our responsibilites here, sorry.
If you want to see that wiki page fixed, the best is probably to... fix it
yourself :-) (it's a wiki after all)
(frankly, I think it should be removed or replaced with a pair of
Jeffrey Walton added the comment:
there's not much point in reporting bugs here about it.
Oh, sorry about that.
That page's contents look very outdated, by the way.
Yeah, there's a few opportunities for improvement.
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