By reading the Python's requests docs,
I found the following, which stated :
When you are using the prepared request flow, keep in mind that it
does not take into account the environment. This can cause problems if
you are using environment variables to change the behaviour of
requests. For example: Self-signed SSL certificates specified in
REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE will not be taken into account. As a result an
SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED is thrown. You can get around this
behaviour by explicity merging the environment settings into your
session:
from requests import Request, Session
s = Session()
req = Request('GET', url)
prepped = s.prepare_request(req)
# Merge environment settings into session
settings = s.merge_environment_settings(prepped.url, None, None, None, None)
resp = s.send(prepped, **settings)
print(resp.status_code)
I recommend to read the docs because I just quoted a part of the original documentation.
Other than that,
Requests verifies SSL certificates for HTTPS requests, just like a web
browser. By default, SSL verification is enabled, and Requests will
throw a SSLError if it's unable to verify the certificate.
You can use verify parameter to provide the path to a CA_BUNDLE file or directory with certificates of trusted CA's:
>>> requests.get('https://your-school-website-url.com', verify='/path/to/cacert_file')
Requests can also ignore verifying the SSL certificate if you set verify to False:
>>> requests.get('https://kennethreitz.org', verify=False)
<Response [200]>
By default, verify is set to True. Option verify only applies to host certs.
Again, kindly read the docs.
Hope it helps !
