Add TLSConfig.verification_server_name to decouple certificate verification from SNI

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What was changed

Adds an optional TLSConfig.verification_server_name. When set, the server certificate is verified against this fixed name instead of the connection's server name, while the TLS SNI and HTTP/2 :authority values keep following the connected host (or domain, if set).

Today the only way to verify a certificate that carries a different name than the one being dialed is TLSConfig.domain, but domain couples three things: the name the certificate is checked against, the SNI, and the :authority header. So verifying against name X forces SNI to X too.

This came up connecting through an SNI-inspecting egress proxy that re-resolves the SNI hostname: the server's certificate carries an internal-only name, so setting domain to that name made the connection unresolvable at the proxy, and leaving domain unset failed certificate verification. There's an earlier ask in the same family in #463.

Implementation

The bundled sdk-core client crate already exposes TlsOptions.server_cert_verifier; the Python bridge just hardcoded it to None. This wires it up: when verification_server_name is set, the bridge builds a rustls ServerCertVerifier that delegates to the standard WebPkiServerVerifier (full chain, validity, and configured revocation checks) but substitutes the fixed name for the connection's server name. Root loading and crypto-provider selection mirror tonic's default (non-verifier) client path, so trust and negotiation match an ordinary connection.

Because a custom verifier can't be combined with connection roots, the CA bundle from server_root_ca_cert is consumed by the verifier's own root store; server_root_ca_cert is therefore required when verification_server_name is set (validated up front with a clear error). Existing behavior when the field is unset is byte-for-byte unchanged.

Deliberately not touched: envconfig TOML profiles, since that schema mirrors the cross-SDK envconfig spec and a Python-only key would fork it. Happy to follow up if you'd rather that be added.

Testing

tests/test_tls.py runs an in-process TLS server whose certificate is valid only for pinned.test while the client dials localhost, and asserts on both the handshake outcome and the SNI the server observed:

• default verification rejects the certificate (baseline);
• with verification_server_name="pinned.test" the handshake succeeds and the observed SNI is localhost, not the pinned name;
• a pinned name the certificate does not carry is still rejected, so the option redirects verification rather than disabling it;
• the missing-CA case raises before any dial.

Also probed the bridge with malformed/truncated/empty PEM and invalid names; all surface as ValueError, no panics.

Open design question for reviewers: this could instead live in sdk-core's TlsOptions so every language bridge gets it. Kept it in the bridge here to stay self-contained, but glad to move it upstream to core if that's preferred.

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