opscode/chef — pull request #484 by DmZ (2012-11-15 11:15:10+00:00)
Title: [CHEF-3612] Make chef-solo respect :ssl_verify_mode during recipe download

chef-solo will fail if recipe_url will be hosted on https://
with self-signed certificate, or if there will be no SSL certificates
configured on system at all (see CHEF-2840).
This fix allows to set :ssl_verify_mode = :verify_none (default)
to skip verification of certificates during cookbook download.