Std.Tls.connect

fn

This is a callable function.

What it does

Open a connection and prove the far end is the host that was named.

There is no argument that turns the proof off. A caller given one would

eventually use it to make something work, and what it produces is a

connection encrypted against a stranger rather than private with the

intended server — worse than an unsecured one, because it looks safe.

Trust comes from the machine's own store, so an organisation that has told

its machines about an internal authority is believed without this library

keeping a list that would go stale.

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