Clarify the documentation for TLS cipher configuration & defaults #41061
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I needed to set
ciphers
on a TLS socket today, and the format of the cipher list string doesn't appear to be documented anywhere.To work out how it worked, I needed to check the default value, which unfortunately also isn't documented.
This PR fixes both: making it clear that ciphers is a colon-separated list, and documenting the
tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS
property that is its default value.