added comment about why we disable ssl on boto images upload

scrapy · Dec 15, 2011 · 5223575 · 5223575
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diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/images.py b/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/images.py
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ def _onsuccess(boto_key):
 
     def _get_boto_bucket(self):
         from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
+        # disable ssl (is_secure=False) because of this python bug:
+        # http://bugs.python.org/issue5103
         c = S3Connection(self.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, self.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, is_secure=False)
         return c.get_bucket(self.bucket, validate=False)