Ignoring Requests SSL Verification in Third Party Apps

WARNING: This is unsafe!

One of the most annoying things is not being able to perform an https request using a third party application (e.g., twine) if you’re behind a network firewall that requires SSL verification. Luckily, you can turn this off by temporarily modifying the requests package. Open the ~/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py and, in the Session class, set

#: SSL Verification default.
self.verify = False

Alternatively, directly from the command line, you might be able to tell the ssl Python module to temporarily disable SSL verification before running the Python program:

PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY=0 python your_script.py

Note that this is a complete hack and not usually advised especially if the site that you are visiting is not trusted. This is only here for demonstration purposes. Do not use this code!