changeset: 93563:40f9e91f3626 branch: 2.7 user: Benjamin Peterson date: Sun Nov 23 20:15:31 2014 -0600 files: Misc/NEWS description: add NEWS note for #22921 diff -r e94f407efd76 -r 40f9e91f3626 Misc/NEWS --- a/Misc/NEWS Sun Nov 23 20:13:55 2014 -0600 +++ b/Misc/NEWS Sun Nov 23 20:15:31 2014 -0600 @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Library ------- +- Issue #22921: Allow SSLContext to take the *hostname* parameter even if + OpenSSL doesn't support SNI. + - Issue #9003 and #22366: httplib.HTTPSConnection, urllib2.HTTPSHandler and urllib2.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS. This backport is part of PEP