problem while trying to fetch 0.2.1.8-alpha

[Scott Bennett]

     On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:51:10 -0800 coderman <coderman at gmail.com>
wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>>...
>>     Okay.  I downloaded entrust_ssl_ca.der (the man page for wget(1) says
>> it wants DER or PEM format for certificates) and
>
>i tend to use PEM; DER won't work with many wget installations.
>
>wget --ca-certificate=entrust_ssl_ca.cer https://www.torproject.org/dist/...
>
>should work fine.
>
     Still no joy.  Here's an example specifying the certicates directory,
but not specifying it fails identically:

Script started on Fri Jan 23 02:45:18 2009
[hellas] 101 % wget --ca-directory=/usr/local/openssl/certs --ca-certificate=entrust_ssl_ca.cer https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.asc https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.sha1 https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz
--02:47:10--  https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.asc
           => `tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.asc'
Resolving www.torproject.org... 86.59.21.36
Connecting to www.torproject.org|86.59.21.36|:443... connected.
ERROR: Certificate verification error for www.torproject.org: unable to get local issuer certificate
To connect to www.torproject.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
Unable to establish SSL connection.
--02:47:11--  https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.sha1
           => `tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.sha1'
Connecting to www.torproject.org|86.59.21.36|:443... connected.
ERROR: Certificate verification error for www.torproject.org: unable to get local issuer certificate
To connect to www.torproject.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
Unable to establish SSL connection.
--02:47:11--  https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz
           => `tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz'
Connecting to www.torproject.org|86.59.21.36|:443... connected.
ERROR: Certificate verification error for www.torproject.org: unable to get local issuer certificate
To connect to www.torproject.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
Unable to establish SSL connection.

FINISHED --02:47:12--
Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files
[hellas] 102 % exit
exit

Script done on Fri Jan 23 02:47:16 2009


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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