Bug#750638: ITP: ndg-httpsclient -- enhanced HTTPS support for httplib and urllib2 using PyOpenSSL

[Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>]

On Thu, Jun  5, 2014 at 10:24:48 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:

> 
> On Jun 5, 2014, at 7:09 AM, Daniele Tricoli <eriol@mornie.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Julien,
> > thanks for packaging ndg-httpsclient!
> > 
> > On Thursday 05 June 2014 12:26:22 Julien Cristau wrote:
> >> My main interest is to be able to talk to websites using SNI with
> >> scripts using python-requests.
> > 
> > Once in the archive I will also add ndg-httpsclient into python-requests' 
> > Suggests.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > P.S. I'll do the same for python-urllib3:
> >     https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/pull/156
> > 
> > -- 
> > Daniele Tricoli 'Eriol'
> > http://mornie.org
> 
> You need pyasn1, pyopenssl, and ndg-httpsclient in order for the requests/urllib3 stuff to kick in.
> 
> It’d probably be a sane idea to use recommends, at least on Python 2.x since using that also
> prevents CRIME and the like which Python 2.x is vulnerable to else wise IIRC.
> 
My plan is for the ndg-httpsclient package to depend on pyopenssl and recommend pyasn1.

Cheers,
Julien
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Julien Cristau          <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>
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