ask/python-github2 — comment on commit 6992c53d2cdc0466fa320f575d3344213a96c3f0
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By JNRowe:

For what it's worth…

> Have you considered using requests? It would make all of this unnecessary.

I played with this during some downtime, and that seems to not be the case The default behaviour in `requests` of using bundled certificates is the behaviour this code is working around with `httplib2`. It may help in the case where your distributor has patched `requests` for you(Debian and Gentoo for sure), but that would also make deploy testing more complex.

Trade-offs are everywhere, run for the hills ;)