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The Secure Sockets layer is only actually secure if you check the
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hostname in the certificate returned by the server to which you
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are connecting, and verify that it matches to hostname that you
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are trying to reach.
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But the matching logic, defined in RFC2818, can be a bit tricky to
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implement on your own. So the ssl package in the Standard Library
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of Python 3.2 and greater now includes a match_hostname() function
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for performing this check instead of requiring every application
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to implement the check separately.
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This package contains the backport of this functionality to Python 2.
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