SSL Certificate Verification using requests in ckan_engine.py

[jlgutenson]

Hey guys,

We have been in the process of making our Tethys instance publicly available. Our instance of Streamflow Prediction Tool (SPT) relies on ckan_engine.py. One issue we found was that the ckan_engine.py dependence on the requests library took exception to SSL certificates. We have set the verify argument for request.get() and requests.post() to False as a temporary solution. I was thinking that maybe this should be an additional argument to call when using ckan_engine.py. We just wanted to call this to your attention.

Let me know if you have suggestions or questions!

Thanks,
Joseph