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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion src/requests/api.py
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Expand Up @@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ def request(
:param proxies: (optional) Dictionary mapping protocol to the URL of the proxy.
:param verify: (optional) Either a boolean, in which case it controls whether we verify
the server's TLS certificate, or a string, in which case it must be a path
to a CA bundle to use. Defaults to ``True``.
to a CA bundle to use. Defaults to ``True``. Passing a boolean value will also
ignore any custom CA bundle set globally.
:param stream: (optional) if ``False``, the response content will be immediately downloaded.
:param cert: (optional) if String, path to ssl client cert file (.pem). If Tuple, ('cert', 'key') pair.
:return: :class:`Response <Response>` object
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion src/requests/sessions.py
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Expand Up @@ -606,7 +606,9 @@ def request(
content. Defaults to ``False``.
:param verify: (optional) Either a boolean, in which case it controls whether we verify
the server's TLS certificate, or a string, in which case it must be a path
to a CA bundle to use. Defaults to ``True``. When set to
to a CA bundle to use. Defaults to ``None``, in which case the value from
``self.verify`` is used. Passing a boolean value will also reset the CA bundle
to the default. When set to
``False``, requests will accept any TLS certificate presented by
the server, and will ignore hostname mismatches and/or expired
certificates, which will make your application vulnerable to
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