Restoring the HOST variable

docs/README.md

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ api_key = '83749879bbde395b5fe0cc1a5abf8e5'
 client = recurly.Client(api_key)
 ```
 
-To access Recurly servers in Europe you have to initialize the client with the argument region with the value "eu".
+To access Recurly API in Europe, you will need to specify the EU Region in the argument region.
 
 ```python
 api_key = '83749879bbde395b5fe0cc1a5abf8e5'

recurly/base_client.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import socket
 from base64 import b64encode
 import json
+import ssl
 from . import resources
 from .resource import Resource, Empty
 from .request import Request
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@
 BINARY_TYPES = ["application/pdf"]
 ALLOWED_OPTIONS = ["body", "params", "headers"]
 API_HOSTS = {"us": "v3.recurly.com", "eu": "v3.eu.recurly.com"}
+HOST = API_HOSTS["us"]
 
 
 def request_converter(value):
@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ class BaseClient:
     def __init__(self, api_key, timeout=None, **options):
         self.__api_key = api_key
         actual_timeout = timeout if timeout is not None else DEFAULT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT
-        api_host = API_HOSTS["us"]
+        api_host = HOST
 
         if "region" in options:
             if options["region"] not in API_HOSTS:
@@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ def __init__(self, api_key, timeout=None, **options):
             api_host = API_HOSTS[options["region"]]
 
         self.__conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection(
-            api_host, PORT, timeout=actual_timeout
+            api_host, PORT, timeout=actual_timeout, context=ssl.create_default_context()
         )
 
     def _make_request(self, method, path, body, **options):