aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/docs/x509.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/x509.rst')
-rw-r--r--docs/x509.rst7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/x509.rst b/docs/x509.rst
index 035fa87f..5f36a921 100644
--- a/docs/x509.rst
+++ b/docs/x509.rst
@@ -452,7 +452,12 @@ General Name Classes
.. versionadded:: 0.9
This corresponds to a uniform resource identifier. For example,
- ``https://cryptography.io``.
+ ``https://cryptography.io``. The URI is parsed and IDNA decoded (see
+ :rfc:`5895`).
+
+ .. note::
+
+ URIs that do not contain ``://`` in them will not be decoded.
.. attribute:: value