diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ebf1909..c90dad7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -345,6 +345,7 @@ Generic:
 
 - `DEBUG=1`: to have some feedback from the script
 execution. Useful for debugging.
+- `IGNORE_SSL=1`: to ignore SSL certs when fetch feeds and articles
 - `DELAY` sets the browser cache delay, only for HTTP clients
 - `TIMEOUT` sets the HTTP timeout when fetching rss feeds and articles
 
diff --git a/morss/crawler.py b/morss/crawler.py
index f074031..fe1805d 100644
--- a/morss/crawler.py
+++ b/morss/crawler.py
@@ -53,10 +53,6 @@ except NameError:
 CACHE_SIZE = int(os.getenv('CACHE_SIZE', 1000)) # max number of items in cache (default: 1k items)
 CACHE_LIFESPAN = int(os.getenv('CACHE_LIFESPAN', 60)) # how often to auto-clear the cache (default: 1min)
 
-# uncomment the lines below to ignore SSL certs
-#import ssl
-#ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
-
 
 MIMETYPE = {
     'xml': ['text/xml', 'application/xml', 'application/rss+xml', 'application/rdf+xml', 'application/atom+xml', 'application/xhtml+xml'],
@@ -743,6 +739,11 @@ else:
         default_cache = CappedDict()
 
 
+if 'IGNORE_SSL' in os.environ:
+    import ssl
+    ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     req = adv_get(sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else 'https://morss.it')