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The Python Holy Grail

This checkin to python brings a long-awaited (and sorely needed, IMO) enhancement to python: SSL certificate verification support. Once the API support percolates up from socket through the various network libraries in python proper, for the vast majority of developers there will no longer be a need for PyOpenSSL, M2Crypto, or rhnlib.

This was written by James Bowes. Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007, at 11:34 am. Filed under tech. Tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Todd Warner wrote:

    Awesome. ’bout damn time.

    Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 1:00 pm | Permalink
  2. Jason Connor wrote:

    That is a really cool feature to have in the core libraries. I’ll have to grab the latest version from svn and try it out.

    Friday, August 31, 2007 at 12:14 pm | Permalink