[issue23857] Make default HTTPS certificate verification setting configurable

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

The attached patch adds documentation (to the ssl module docs, the environment variable descriptions and the 2.7 What's New) and also fixes the PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY tests to use a subprocess so they can still run under -E.

Assuming the docs pass muster, then the only bit missing should be the NEWS entry.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42112/pep493_with_docs.diff

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