note xmlrpclib doesn't verify certs (yet)

77a75b3d · Benjamin Peterson · 5e7b5427 · 77a75b3d
Commit 77a75b3d authored Oct 13, 2014 by Benjamin Peterson
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@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ between conformable Python objects and XML on the wire.
   constructed data.  If you need to parse untrusted or unauthenticated data see
   :ref:`xml-vulnerabilities`.

+.. warning::
+
+   In the case of https URIS, :mod:`xmlrpc.client` does not do any verification
+   of the server's certificate.
+

 .. class:: ServerProxy(uri, transport=None, encoding=None, verbose=False, \
                       allow_none=False, use_datetime=False, \