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Issue #21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations 

Closes #21043 by updating the documentation to remove specific CA
organizations and update the text to no longer need to tell you to
download root certificates, but instead use the OS certificates
avaialble through SSLContext.load_default_certs.
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Donald Stufft 2014-03-24 19:26:03 -04:00
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@ -1339,20 +1339,9 @@ If you are going to require validation of the other side of the connection's
certificate, you need to provide a "CA certs" file, filled with the certificate
chains for each issuer you are willing to trust. Again, this file just contains
these chains concatenated together. For validation, Python will use the first
chain it finds in the file which matches. Some "standard" root certificates are
available from various certification authorities: `CACert.org
<http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3>`_, `Thawte
<http://www.thawte.com/roots/>`_, `Verisign
<http://www.verisign.com/support/roots.html>`_, `Positive SSL
<http://www.PositiveSSL.com/ssl-certificate-support/cert_installation/UTN-USERFirst-Hardware.crt>`_
(used by python.org), `Equifax and GeoTrust
<http://www.geotrust.com/resources/root_certificates/index.asp>`_.
In general, if you are using SSL3 or TLS1, you don't need to put the full chain
in your "CA certs" file; you only need the root certificates, and the remote
peer is supposed to furnish the other certificates necessary to chain from its
certificate to a root certificate. See :rfc:`4158` for more discussion of the
way in which certification chains can be built.
chain it finds in the file which matches. The platform's certificates file can
be used by calling :meth:`SSLContext.load_default_certs`, this is done
automatically with :func:`.create_default_context`.
Combined key and certificate
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Library
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations and to
mention the ability to load the OS certificates.
- Issue #20765: Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and
PurePath.with_suffix().