mwclient uses SSL even when broken

[nemobis]

In my xmlrevisions branch:

$ python dumpgenerator.py --xml --xmlrevisions --api=http://www.insult.wiki/w/api.php
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "dumpgenerator.py", line 2352, in <module>
    main()
  File "dumpgenerator.py", line 2344, in main
    createNewDump(config=config, other=other)
  File "dumpgenerator.py", line 1911, in createNewDump
    generateXMLDump(config=config, titles=titles, session=other['session'])
  File "dumpgenerator.py", line 755, in generateXMLDump
    for xml in getXMLRevisions(config=config, session=session):
  File "dumpgenerator.py", line 812, in getXMLRevisions
    site = mwclient.Site(apiurl.netloc, apiurl.path.replace("api.php", ""))
  File "/home/federico/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mwclient/client.py", line 131, in __init__
    self.site_init()
  File "/home/federico/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mwclient/client.py", line 153, in site_init
    retry_on_error=False)
  File "/home/federico/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mwclient/client.py", line 235, in get
    return self.api(action, 'GET', *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/federico/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mwclient/client.py", line 286, in api
    info = self.raw_api(action, http_method, **kwargs)
  File "/home/federico/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mwclient/client.py", line 434, in raw_api
    http_method=http_method)
  File "/home/federico/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mwclient/client.py", line 395, in raw_call
    stream = self.connection.request(http_method, url, **args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 533, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 646, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 514, in send
    raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.insult.wiki', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /w/api.php?format=json&continue=&meta=siteinfo%7Cuserinfo%7Cuserinfo&action=query&siprop=general%7Cnamespaces&uiprop=groups%7Crights%7Cblockinfo%7Chasmsg (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, u'[SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:727)'),))

https://www.insult.wiki/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general fails for an SSL error, yet mwclient decides to use HTTPS as a protocol, we have no way to tell it to use HTTP.
https://mwclient.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/site.html