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  2. PYTHON-834

option to disable hostname validation during CA validation

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    • Type: Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Done
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
    • 3.0, 2.9
    • Affects Version/s: 2.8
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      There are circumstances where you still require a CA to validate that your key and cert are valid, but forgo verifying that the hostname matches the CN.

      This is already done in TxMongo which uses Twisted's SSL Context Factory to achieve the same thing.

      Example of use-case (outside of MongoDB):
      http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH141351

            Assignee:
            bernie@mongodb.com Bernie Hackett
            Reporter:
            psi29a Bret Curtis
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