diff --git a/langchain/document_loaders/web_base.py b/langchain/document_loaders/web_base.py
index cee218dadb..bd699eb831 100644
--- a/langchain/document_loaders/web_base.py
+++ b/langchain/document_loaders/web_base.py
@@ -51,7 +51,10 @@ class WebBaseLoader(BaseLoader):
     """kwargs for requests"""
 
     def __init__(
-        self, web_path: Union[str, List[str]], header_template: Optional[dict] = None
+        self,
+        web_path: Union[str, List[str]],
+        header_template: Optional[dict] = None,
+        verify: Optional[bool] = True,
     ):
         """Initialize with webpage path."""
 
@@ -71,6 +74,9 @@ class WebBaseLoader(BaseLoader):
                 "bs4 package not found, please install it with " "`pip install bs4`"
             )
 
+        # Choose to verify
+        self.verify = verify
+
         headers = header_template or default_header_template
         if not headers.get("User-Agent"):
             try:
@@ -98,7 +104,7 @@ class WebBaseLoader(BaseLoader):
             for i in range(retries):
                 try:
                     async with session.get(
-                        url, headers=self.session.headers
+                        url, headers=self.session.headers, verify=self.verify
                     ) as response:
                         return await response.text()
                 except aiohttp.ClientConnectionError as e:
@@ -173,7 +179,7 @@ class WebBaseLoader(BaseLoader):
 
         self._check_parser(parser)
 
-        html_doc = self.session.get(url, **self.requests_kwargs)
+        html_doc = self.session.get(url, verify=self.verify, **self.requests_kwargs)
         html_doc.encoding = html_doc.apparent_encoding
         return BeautifulSoup(html_doc.text, parser)