Why do HTTPS requests produce SSL CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error?

Question

Here is my Python code:

    import requests     requests.get('https://google.com') 

This is the error:

requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='google.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1,  '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:833)'),)) 

Using Insomnia gives me an error related with certificates:

My OS is Windows 7 Professional.

Answer 1

requests.get('https://google.com', verify='/path/to/certfile') 

or you can skip verifications by doing this:

requests.get('https://google.com', verify=False) 

You should specify your CA.