Calling this 1.6.8.alpha for bug-fix branch
Revert "Provide functionality to specify the SSL version for the Net::HTTP connection (from https://github.com/archiloque/rest-client/pull/140). Fixes #3."

Withholding this change from the 1.6.x branch to conform to semantic
versioning.  This reverts commit
520fc2353d51eed6f7bdc297daac47e2554f492e.

Conflicts:
	lib/restclient/request.rb
Merge remote-tracking branch 'kachick/improve-remove_warnings' into 1.6-bug-fixes
Null "merge" to sync up with branch "1.6-bug-fixes"