defensive-coding-guide/modules/ROOT/examples/Features-TLS-Client-Python-check_host_name.adoc
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def check_host_name(peercert, name):
"""Simple certificate/host name checker. Returns True if the
certificate matches, False otherwise. Does not support
wildcards."""
# Check that the peer has supplied a certificate.
# None/{} is not acceptable.
if not peercert:
return False
if peercert.has_key("subjectAltName"):
for typ, val in peercert["subjectAltName"]:
if typ == "DNS" and val == name:
return True
else:
# Only check the subject DN if there is no subject alternative
# name.
cn = None
for attr, val in peercert["subject"]:
# Use most-specific (last) commonName attribute.
if attr == "commonName":
cn = val
if cn is not None:
return cn == name
return False