title: Can I turn off Python (PiP) SSL cert validation with an ENV variable?
body: <p>I have a really bad network that uses a MITM cert to snoop on everyone's convos. This means I need to turn it off, for example, in node I use <code>export NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED="0"</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a similar way to do this in Python to get around this issue?</p>
  
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  <p>Pretend I am security deficient (which I am). In my example for node I just configure an environmental variable and be done. This has me using a pem file (which I have no idea where to get). I tried downloading the cert chain but couldn't get it to a pem file. Is there really no more straight forward way to accomplish this? Honestly the way the network is set up I don't think I can even import just one cert.</p>
  
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  <p>I tried using this...</p>
  
  <pre><code>pip3 install itsdangerous --proxy=http://proxy.me.com:80 --index-url=http://pypi.python.org/simple/
  
  Getting page http://pypi.python.org/simple/
  Could not fetch URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/: timed out
  Will skip URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/ when looking for download links for itsdangerous
  Cannot fetch index base URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/
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  <p>Still confirming that this isn't a red herring thanks to our proxy.</p>
  
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  <p>Also I've tried adding <code>HTTP_PROXY</code> and <code>HTTPS_PROXY</code> instead of the command line option. Still get the following result...</p>
  
  <pre><code>  pip3 install itsdangerous --index-url=http://pypi.python.org/simple/
    ...
    Downloading/unpacking itsdangerous
    Getting page http://pypi.python.org/simple/itsdangerous/
    Could not fetch URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/itsdangerous/: connection error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)
    Will skip URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/itsdangerous/ when looking for download links for itsdangerous
    Getting page http://pypi.python.org/simple/
    Could not fetch URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/: connection error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)
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  <p>Also might be important...</p>
  
  <pre><code>pip 1.5.4 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.4)
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