This is going to break existing versions of urllib3 (and thus requests and thus pip) when using verified TLS + a proxy, however future versions can work around it and a fix is being looked at right now. Once it's fixed there it can propagate to requests and then to pip.

Urllib3 issue is here https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/issues/385

As far as what CPython should do. I personally don't think 3.4.1 should go out with this broken. That'll mean either getting a new pip out with the fix and bump the bundled version in CPython or revert this patch and wait till 3.5 (or 3.4.2 if you don't want to hold up 3.4.1).