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[Python-Dev] Validating SSL By Default (aka Including a Cert Bundle in CPython)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Jun 3 19:07:00 CEST 2013 
On Jun 03, 2013, at 02:17 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:

>I'd actually prefer for Linux to not use the bundled certs when installed
>from a package manager because it should use the system certs, but people
>can't depend on certs being there if they are only there on linux.

I think we agree on that.

>Adding them into Python means people _can_ depend on them being there, and
>Windows and other systems without system integrators to modify it to use the
>system store will still get certs and Ubuntu can make it just work(™).

Again, I think PEP 431 provides a pretty good model for how this should be
done.  Maybe it's worth factoring out this specific part of PEP 431 into an
informational PEP?

>This would probably (eventually) make the bundling of certificates better
>too.
>
>Meaning that once it's been in long enough people are willing to depend on
>it, they won't need to bundle their own certs and ubuntu/debian can just
>modify the one location instead of needing to modify it for every package
>that does it.

Can we do the same for the JavaScript libraries? :)

-Barry
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