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The Secure Sockets layer is only actually *secure* if you check the hostname in the certificate returned by the server to which you are connecting, and verify that it matches to hostname that you are trying to reach.
But the matching logic, defined in `RFC2818`_,
can be a bit tricky to implement on your own.
So the ``ssl`` package in the Standard Library of Python 3.2 and greater now includes a ``match_hostname()`` function for performing this check instead of requiring every application to implement the check separately.
This backport brings ``match_hostname()`` to users
of earlier versions of Python.
In a Nutshell, backports.ssl_match_hostname...
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