document that cadefault does nothing now

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Benjamin Peterson 2014-11-23 11:43:33 -06:00
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@ -57,10 +57,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions:
point to a directory of hashed certificate files. More information can
be found in :meth:`ssl.SSLContext.load_verify_locations`.
The *cadefault* parameter specifies whether to fall back to loading a
default certificate store defined by the underlying OpenSSL library if the
*cafile* and *capath* parameters are omitted. This will only work on
some non-Windows platforms.
The *cadefault* parameter is ignored.
For http and https urls, this function returns a
:class:`http.client.HTTPResponse` object which has the following