48418799 don't verify peer.  change for new cheetah endpoint
Squashed commit of the following:

commit 94dec1091ea8c4669a5ac1e3ac55f97b02ef9f8d
Author: Brad Reid <bradreid20@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 19 14:38:26 2013 -0700

    set ssl verify_mode to none