note xmlrpclib doesn't verify certs (yet)

diff --git a/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst b/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst
index 3cb19d186267b1593f3483b200b24d1f8d945d86..6471ba2f2ed61129b50bf8ff79f1f210c95c88c8 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ between conformable Python objects and XML on the wire.
    constructed data.  If you need to parse untrusted or unauthenticated data see
    :ref:`xml-vulnerabilities`.
 
+.. warning::
+
+   In the case of https URIS, :mod:`xmlrpc.client` does not do any verification
+   of the server's certificate.
+
 
 .. class:: ServerProxy(uri, transport=None, encoding=None, verbose=False, \
                        allow_none=False, use_datetime=False, \