there's no reason a store should not open a connection during init if it
needs to open any connection to function. delaying connection setup like
this makes openStore less deterministic and graceful fallback impossible
this caused test failures where the old behaviour was required to ensure
test output stability. because of course something like that must happen
Change-Id: I946adddee026f1f4c74b4699d730b4d1ac9a5072
if the netrcFile setting has been changed tell curl that the file is required, so
fetching fails if the file does not exist
if the caFile setting has been specified, check if the file exists and throw an
error if is it non-existent
Refs: #1106
Change-Id: Icb9330a7a715175d35b9ed894ed945f0fd4d7061
eldritch horrors