diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@
 
 .. seealso::
 
-    The `Requests package <http://requests.readthedocs.org/>`_
+    Since Python 2.7.9, for https uris, :mod:`urllib` performs all the necessary certificate
+    and hostname checks by default.
+
+    The `Requests package <http://docs.python-requests.org/>`_
     is recommended for a higher-level HTTP client interface.
 
-.. warning:: When opening HTTPS URLs, it does not attempt to validate the
-   server certificate.  Use at your own risk!
-
 
 High-level interface
 --------------------