Re: [issue23857] Make default HTTPS certificate verification setting configurable via global ini file

2015-04-05 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 05.04.2015 22:49, Donald Stufft wrote: Donald Stufft added the comment: I don't consider monkey patching a proper way to configure a Python installation. The point is that that TLS validation on/off isn't conceptually a Python level configuration option, that's going to be a per

Re: [issue23857] Make default HTTPS certificate verification setting configurable via global ini file

2015-04-05 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
FWIW: I just ran into a situation where the new approach resulted in pip, setuptools and zc.buildout not working anymore. This was on an AIX system which did come with CA root certificates at all. Now, I knew how to fix this, but the solution was not an obvious one. I had to use truss to figure