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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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@@ -129,8 +129,43 @@ this will cause redis-py 3.0 to raise a ConnectionError.
This check can be disabled by setting `ssl_cert_reqs` to `None`. Note that
doing so removes the security check. Do so at your own risk.
-It has been reported that SSL certs received from AWS ElastiCache do not have
-proper hostnames and turning off hostname verification is currently required.
+Example with hostname verification using a local certificate bundle (linux):
+
+.. code-block:: pycon
+
+ >>> import redis
+ >>> r = redis.Redis(host='xxxxxx.cache.amazonaws.com', port=6379, db=0,
+ ssl=True,
+ ssl_ca_certs='/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt')
+ >>> r.set('foo', 'bar')
+ True
+ >>> r.get('foo')
+ b'bar'
+
+Example with hostname verification using
+`certifi <https://pypi.org/project/certifi/>`_:
+
+.. code-block:: pycon
+
+ >>> import redis, certifi
+ >>> r = redis.Redis(host='xxxxxx.cache.amazonaws.com', port=6379, db=0,
+ ssl=True, ssl_ca_certs=certifi.where())
+ >>> r.set('foo', 'bar')
+ True
+ >>> r.get('foo')
+ b'bar'
+
+Example turning off hostname verification (not recommended):
+
+.. code-block:: pycon
+
+ >>> import redis
+ >>> r = redis.Redis(host='xxxxxx.cache.amazonaws.com', port=6379, db=0,
+ ssl=True, ssl_cert_reqs=None)
+ >>> r.set('foo', 'bar')
+ True
+ >>> r.get('foo')
+ b'bar'
MSET, MSETNX and ZADD
@@ -150,7 +185,7 @@ dict is a mapping of element-names -> score.
MSET, MSETNX and ZADD now look like:
-.. code-block:: python
+.. code-block:: pycon
def mset(self, mapping):
def msetnx(self, mapping):