PyCharm Fix for Certificate Verify Failed: Unable To Get Local Issuer Certificate

When your organization installs a security monitoring app like Zscaler on your workstation, it could hinder your productivity by blocking many existing third-party apps you have been using for your development or testing deliverables. 

In many cases, once installed, you will have no problem accessing public URLs via browser but will still face challenges when trying to access via terminal or IDE. Although when organizations install security apps, they add company-generated certificates in the system cert, some applications like Java, Python, IDE, NPM, etc. do not use default system cert and have their own custom trust store, which fails to validate Zscaler-generated server certificates, and the TLS connection fails.

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