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Diffstat (limited to 'urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py | 17 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py b/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py index 7c513f3..21a12c6 100644 --- a/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py +++ b/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ -'''SSL with SNI_-support for Python 2. +'''SSL with SNI_-support for Python 2. Follow these instructions if you would +like to verify SSL certificates in Python 2. Note, the default libraries do +*not* do certificate checking; you need to do additional work to validate +certificates yourself. This needs the following packages installed: @@ -6,9 +9,15 @@ This needs the following packages installed: * ndg-httpsclient (tested with 0.3.2) * pyasn1 (tested with 0.1.6) -To activate it call :func:`~urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl.inject_into_urllib3`. -This can be done in a ``sitecustomize`` module, or at any other time before -your application begins using ``urllib3``, like this:: +You can install them with the following command: + + pip install pyopenssl ndg-httpsclient pyasn1 + +To activate certificate checking, call +:func:`~urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl.inject_into_urllib3` from your Python code +before you begin making HTTP requests. This can be done in a ``sitecustomize`` +module, or at any other time before your application begins using ``urllib3``, +like this:: try: import urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl |