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| author | Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun@twistedmatrix.com> | 2015-03-15 16:17:19 -0400 |
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| committer | Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun@twistedmatrix.com> | 2015-03-15 16:17:19 -0400 |
| commit | 876b2ac5929fd9edcf7c03d1f28ee5334bce60ea (patch) | |
| tree | 49b2a6da778ace4afa1baa4b722bb30a6ca7f0bc | |
| parent | 64b6b84b525d4b6c4af31066bb71ffe3a5cce2f0 (diff) | |
| download | pyopenssl-verify-chain.tar.gz | |
The message is not a basestring and basestring is an awful type anyway.verify-chain
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/crypto.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/crypto.rst b/doc/api/crypto.rst index 3955802..f378e84 100644 --- a/doc/api/crypto.rst +++ b/doc/api/crypto.rst @@ -543,9 +543,11 @@ The X509StoreContextError is an exception raised from `X509StoreContext.verify_certificate` in circumstances where a certificate cannot be verified in a provided context. -The exception objects have a :py:class:`basestring` ``message`` attribute which -contains error messages and :py:class:`X509` ``certificate`` attribute by which -they indicate where the verification error was detected. +The certificate for which the verification error was detected is given by the +``certificate`` attribute of the exception instance as a :class:`X509` +instance. + +Details about the verification error are given in the exception's ``args`` attribute. X509StoreContext objects |