[PATCH] verify certificate of https server

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 17:11, Dimitris Glynos <dimitris at census-labs.com> wrote:
> * To do proper validation of the server certificate I had to rely on
>  pyopenssl. The openSSL wrappers provided by python 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0
>  are "ok" for simple high-level SSL communication, but they're not
>  sufficient for the functionality we're after here
>  (see mercurial/url.py).

Have you looked at the SSL package that is included in 2.6 but is
available from PyPI for 2.5 (and 2.4, I think)? That would give us a
path to something we don't need dependencies for.

Also, next time please send your patches inline, it's much easier to
review (bonus credit for using patchbomb).

Cheers,

Dirkjan