Add verify_ssl option #3676

Job	Run time
Micro Benchmarks (3.10)	2m 20s
Generate Code Coverage (3.10)	3m 50s
Run Security Checks (3.10)	1m 5s
Build and Test Release Artifact (3.10)	2m 28s
Build and upload Documentation (3.10)	2m 11s
Run Various Lint and Other Checks (3.10)	4m 35s
Build and Verify Docker Image (3.10)	3m 1s
Unit Tests (Python 3.12)	2m 7s
Unit Tests (Python 3.13)	2m 2s
Unit Tests (Python pypy-3.10)	2m 35s
Unit Tests (Python 3.14)	2m 46s
Unit Tests (Python 3.10)	2m 14s
Unit Tests (Python 3.11)	1m 54s
	33m 8s

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