SSLContext.check_hostname description is inaccurate wrt match_hostname

[scop]

BPO	39616
Nosy	@scop, @miss-islington
PRs	bpo-39616: clarify SSLContext.check_hostname effect #18484 [3.9] bpo-39616: clarify SSLContext.check_hostname effect (GH-18484) #25036 [3.8] bpo-39616: clarify SSLContext.check_hostname effect (GH-18484) #25037

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created_at = <Date 2020-02-12.12:37:07.269>
labels = ['type-feature', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', 'docs']
title = 'SSLContext.check_hostname description is inaccurate wrt match_hostname'
updated_at = <Date 2021-03-27.14:42:54.148>
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue39616'
versions = ['Python 3.8', 'Python 3.9', 'Python 3.10']

[scop]

Doc says "Whether to match the peer cert’s hostname with match_hostname() in SSLSocket.do_handshake()." but match_hostname() is no longer used to do that in the first place, OpenSSL is used for that. check_hostname affects the OpenSSL usage, too.

[miss-islington]

New changeset 9798cef by Ville Skyttä in branch 'master':
bpo-39616: clarify SSLContext.check_hostname effect (GH-18484)
9798cef

[miss-islington]

New changeset 9de6451 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8':
bpo-39616: clarify SSLContext.check_hostname effect (GH-18484)
9de6451