Requests is becoming the standard way of doing http communication, it
also vastly simplifies adding other authentication mechanisms. Use it in
the auth_token middleware.
This adds the ability to specify a CA file that will be used to verify a
HTTPS connections or insecure to specifically ignore HTTPS validation.
SecurityImpact
DocImpact
Partial-Bug: #1188189
Change-Id: Iae94329e7abd105bf95224d28f39f4b746b9eb70
20e166fd8a