final SSL changes [backport:1.2] (#16983)

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## `newContext<net.html#newContext%2Cstring%2Cstring%2Cstring%2Cstring>`_
## procedure for additional details.
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## SSL on Windows
## ==============
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## On Windows the SSL library checks for valid certificates.
## It uses the `cacert.pem` file for this purpose which was extracted
## from `https://curl.se/ca/cacert.pem`. Besides
## the OpenSSL DLLs (e.g. libssl-1_1-x64.dll, libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll) you
## also need to ship `cacert.pem` with your `.exe` file.
##
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## Examples
## ========
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