[issue23857] Make default HTTPS certificate verification setting configurable

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

Explicitly noting for anyone considering backporting this change (together with PEP 466 & 476) to a long term support release: watch out for https://bugs.python.org/issue22438

The RHEL/CentOS backport includes a reimplementation of sslwrap:

* https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!python.git/f63228654ecef84a78c552dac832f4cd939cf584/SPECS!python.spec#L989
* https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!python.git/f63228654ecef84a78c552dac832f4cd939cf584/SOURCES!00221-pep466-backport-sslwrap-c-ssl.patch

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