Why does kickstart with liveimg as source FAILS when using HTTPS and --noverifyssl flag ?

Issue

• When using kickstart with liveimg command to provide a source image hosted over HTTPS URL using self signed certificates, it fails to download the image with error SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED even when using the --noverifyssl flag

  HTTPSConnectionPool(host='HTTPServer.example.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /liveimg-tests/image-root.tar.xz (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:897)'),))
  

• When use the source URL over HTTP , the installation works but same fails over HTTPS

  WORKS
  liveimg --url http://HTTPServer.example.com/liveimg-tests/image-root.tar.xz --noverifyssl    
  
  FAILS
  liveimg --url https://HTTPServer.example.com/liveimg-tests/image-root.tar.xz --noverifyssl
  

• The kickstart documentation states that --noverifyssl should disable SSL verification when connecting to an HTTPS URL, but it still receives this error.