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Author gvanrossum
Recipients gvanrossum, pyptr2, vstinner, yselivanov
Date 2016-05-28.14:43:00
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> Why validate at all?

Because (at least for the IP 4/6 protocols) when you give a host name
Python's socket code will do a synchronous DNS lookup which would hold
up the entire event loop until it's done. This would be a major
problem in some cases, so we want to disallow it completely.
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