leezu commented on issue #11546: Add verify_ssl option to gluon.utils.download URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11546#issuecomment-402359384 @marcoabreu I agree that checking SSL certificates is important in general and should be (and is) the default. Still, when providing a utility function in gluon, we should let users judge and give them the option to disable SSL verification when necessary. For example, when SHA1 hashes of the to be downloaded files are hardcoded, the authenticity of the files can be verified based on the hash and little is lost by disabling SSL verification. Again, I do not advocate to disable SSL support in general. However, there may be cases (such as external files which we must not redistribute hosted on a misconfigured server) where it is useful to disable SSL certificate verification.
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