InsecureRequestWarning when fetching feeds

[philgyford]

With every feed I fetch I get this warning:

/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:1045: InsecureRequestWarning:
Unverified HTTPS request is being made to host 'www.example.com'.
Adding certificate verification is strongly advised.
See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/1.26.x/advanced-usage.html#ssl-warnings

I think this is because in this line in utils.read_feed():

ret = requests.get(feed_url, headers=headers, verify=False, allow_redirects=False, timeout=20, proxies=proxies)

there's verify=False. Given the default is True, I'm wondering why it's set to False, which generates these warnings?

[xurble]

It's because on my original hosting, many moons ago, I couldn't install client certificates to make verified requests work.

It's probably not necessary now.

[xurble]

Fixed in next release.