Bug#626539: RFP: backports.ssl_match_hostname -- Backport of ssl.match_hostname() from Python 3.2

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : backports.ssl_match_hostname
  Version         : 3.2a3
  Upstream Author : Brandon Craig Rhodes
* URL             : https://bitbucket.org/brandon/backports.ssl_match_hostname
* License         : PSF
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Backport of ssl.match_hostname() from Python 3.2

The Secure Sockets layer is only actually *secure* if you check the 
hostname in the certificate returned by the server to which you are 
connecting, and verify that it matches to hostname that you are trying 
to reach.

But the matching logic, defined in RFC2818, can be a bit tricky to 
implement on your own. So the ssl package in the Standard Library of 
Python 3.2 now includes a match_hostname() function for performing this 
check instead of requiring every application to implement the check 
separately.

This backport brings match_hostname() to users of earlier versions of 
Python.

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Jakub Wilk