Description: Do not use embedded copy of ssl.match_hostname, when possible The system python has the necessary features backported, since 2.7.8-7 (and 221a1f9155e2, releasing in 2.7.9, upstream). However, alternative python implementations don't, yet, and urllib3 is used by pip in virtualenvs. Author: Stefano Rivera Forwarded: not-needed Last-Update: 2014-11-18 --- a/urllib3/packages/__init__.py +++ b/urllib3/packages/__init__.py @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import -from . import ssl_match_hostname - +try: + # cPython >= 2.7.9 has ssl features backported from Python3 + from ssl import CertificateError + del CertificateError + import ssl as ssl_match_hostname +except ImportError: + from . import ssl_match_hostname