Allow configuration of SSL certificate verification

[amorphic]

Requests provides the verify kwarg to allow a user to:

• True: verify the host's certificate using Requests' internal certificate bundle
• False: do not verify the host's certificate
• /path/to/cert/bundle.pem: verify the host's certificate using a local certificate bundle file

The last two options are requried when using self-signed certificates, i.e. when using SSL inside an organisation.

HypChat does not currently support the verify argument:

class HypChat(object):
    def __init__(self, token, endpoint='https://api.hipchat.com'):
        self._requests = _requests(auth=BearerAuth(token))

A workaround exists for using a local certificate bundle file: export the REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable. But it would be great if HypChat explicitly supported the verify kwarg if provided by the user.

[philipsd6]

I agree, this should be explicitly exposed, but at least you can work around it:

hipchat._requests.verify = False

[successamp]

I'm happy to accept pull requests on this.