From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:43:33 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: document that cadefault does nothing now
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.3rc1~315
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=378e15d7abedb4a1990230d5e3c74d2390be96c4;p=python

document that cadefault does nothing now
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index ea9050f195..249396e25f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -57,10 +57,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions:
    point to a directory of hashed certificate files.  More information can
    be found in :meth:`ssl.SSLContext.load_verify_locations`.
 
-   The *cadefault* parameter specifies whether to fall back to loading a
-   default certificate store defined by the underlying OpenSSL library if the
-   *cafile* and *capath* parameters are omitted.  This will only work on
-   some non-Windows platforms.
+   The *cadefault* parameter is ignored.
 
    For http and https urls, this function returns a
    :class:`http.client.HTTPResponse` object which has the following