Description of problem: Python 3.4's entire ssl module was backported to 2.7.9 [1]. However, docker-py still requires backports.ssl_match_hostname for any Python version less than 3.5. I opened an upstream bug [2] for this discrepancy. If upstream is not interested in fixing it, I would like to help patch the RPM to do the right thing. Additional info: [1] https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-279/ [2] https://github.com/docker/docker-py/issues/1318
Carl, thank you for opening this. Unfortunately I won't drop the requirement (now) because the version of "match_hostname" in 2.7.9 doesn't support ServerAltNames validation ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229409#c9 ) -- docker-py relies on this, that's why I opened: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1379594. As soon as the code is ported to 2.9.x I'm fine with dropping the requirement.
Thanks for the extra info Tomas, hopefully the Python 2 ssl module continues to get improvements.
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I don't see a point in keeping this bug open anymore. Continuing to use backports.ssl_match_hostname is more appealing than hoping for another ssl backport to Python 2.7.