urllib.request could use the default CA store

Lib/urllib/request.py

--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py	Fri May 11 13:11:02 2012 -0400
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py	Wed May 16 12:11:57 2012 -0700
@@ -135,16 +135,19 @@
 
 _opener = None
 def urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
-            *, cafile=None, capath=None):
+            *, cafile=None, capath=None, cadefault=True):
     global _opener
-    if cafile or capath:
+    if cafile or capath or cadefault:
         if not _have_ssl:
             raise ValueError('SSL support not available')
         context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
         context.options |= ssl.OP_NO_SSLv2
-        if cafile or capath:
+        if cafile or capath or cadefault:
             context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_REQUIRED
-            context.load_verify_locations(cafile, capath)
+            if cafile or capath:
+                context.load_verify_locations(cafile, capath)
+            else:
+                context.set_default_verify_paths()
             check_hostname = True
         else:
             check_hostname = False