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docs: Clarify how to pass a custom set of CAs
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This new wording makes it hopefully easier to find how to override the
system-provided list of trusted CAs. I failed to find this through some googling
and had to resort to asking on IRC previously.
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jktjkt committed Sep 25, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ I don't have SSL setup on this domain, so it fails. Excellent. GitHub does thoug
>>> requests.get('https://github.com', verify=True)
<Response [200]>

You can also pass ``verify`` the path to a CA_BUNDLE file for private certs. You can also set the ``REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE`` environment variable.
You can pass ``verify`` the path to a CA_BUNDLE file with certificates of trusted CAs. This list of trusted CAs can also be specified through the ``REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE`` environment variable.

Requests can also ignore verifying the SSL certificate if you set ``verify`` to False.

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