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Implement TOFU (Trust On First Use) for pyVmomi

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#160 opened on Sep 9, 2014

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Description

See: urllib3 and TOFU

TODO:

  • What level of support does Python have for TOFU?
  • How can we make this behave appropriately for a user at the CLI versus a daemon?

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Research direction
Investigate Python's support for TOFU (Trust On First Use) and design a way to implement it in pyVmomi, considering the difference between CLI and daemon usage.
Tech stack
python
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backend
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3
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Needs investigation
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30