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diff doc/hgrc.5.txt @ 12593:01c373762b76 stable
doc: clarify that https cert verification requires web.cacerts
| author | Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com> |
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| date | Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:48:50 +0200 |
| parents | ffcceca7406d |
| children | e23895aea892 |
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--- a/doc/hgrc.5.txt Fri Oct 01 00:46:59 2010 +0200 +++ b/doc/hgrc.5.txt Fri Oct 01 00:48:50 2010 +0200 @@ -951,8 +951,9 @@ third-party tools like email notification hooks can construct URLs. Example: ``http://hgserver/repos/``. ``cacerts`` - Path to file containing a list of PEM encoded certificate authorities - that may be used to verify an SSL server's identity. The form must be + Path to file containing a list of PEM encoded certificate authority + certificates. If specified on the client, then it will verify the identity + of remote HTTPS servers with these certificates. The form must be as follows:: -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- @@ -962,8 +963,8 @@ ... (certificate in base64 PEM encoding) ... -----END CERTIFICATE----- - This feature is only supported when using Python 2.6. If you wish to - use it with earlier versions of Python, install the backported + This feature is only supported when using Python 2.6 or later. If you wish + to use it with earlier versions of Python, install the backported version of the ssl library that is available from ``http://pypi.python.org``.