Requests defaults to verifying that the SSL Cert is valid, which is sane and good, but sometimes we would like to use a self-signed cert in DEV or for local testing. In that case you can tell requests to not verify the cert. The default behavour is still verify, only if you override do you skip verification
Merge pull request #2 from Mxit/no-cert-verify

Requests defaults to verifying that the SSL Cert is valid, which is sane...