[Yum-devel] [UG][Yum] SSL Cert checking - urlgrabber patch

[Michael Stenner]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:08:07PM -0400, James Bowes wrote:
> Here's the urlgrabber patch.
> 
> Instead of importing urllib2, we import m2urllib2, M2Crypto's SSL 
> wrapper around urllib2.

> ssl_context is an M2Crypto SSL Context, which can be passed in if you 
> want more fine-grained control over the SSL setup.

James, the implementation sounds nice.  I've glanced at the patches
and have a couple questions:

  * can it be made to fall back gracefully if m2crypto isn't around?
    (with the new functionality simply not working)
  * does it pass the (python 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) unit tests?

					-Michael
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