Swizzle the web socket client inside of the slack client library to find its own damn Root CA file

swizzle_slack.py

from slackclient import SlackClient as _SlackClient

class SlackClient(_SlackClient):
    # I'm not sure if it's my local environment, but the Slack Client
    # swallows an error where the websocket client beneath can't find
    # the root CA file. 
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(SlackClient, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        def patched_connect_slack_websocket(self, ws_url):
            try:
                import websocket
                import ssl
                sslopt_ca_certs = {}
                ssl_defaults = ssl.get_default_verify_paths()
                if ssl_defaults is not None:
                    sslopt_ca_certs = {'ca_certs': ssl_defaults.cafile}
                self.websocket = websocket.create_connection(ws_url, sslopt=sslopt_ca_certs)
            except Exception as e:
                print e
                print 'Failed WebSocket Connection.'
        self.server.__class__.connect_slack_websocket = patched_connect_slack_websocket