diff --git a/morss/morss.py b/morss/morss.py
index 51dd2b0..cbe0b6c 100644
--- a/morss/morss.py
+++ b/morss/morss.py
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ THREADS = 10  # number of threads (1 for single-threaded)
 DEBUG = False
 PORT = 8080
 
-CA_CERT = 'cacert.pem' # ca cert file
 DEFAULT_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0'
 
 MIMETYPE = {