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From: "Petteri Räty" <petteri.raty@××××××××××.fi>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] the default FETCHCOMMAND with broken ssl certificates
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:48:28
Message-Id: 42F6732F.20108@saunalahti.fi
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4 One of the java packages, jdictrayapi, is only available over ssl. Here
5 is the output I get if I try downloading it with wget:
6
7 betelgeuse@pena ~/java $ wget
8 https://jdic.dev.java.net/files/documents/880/16466/jdic-0.9.1-src.zip
9 - --23:37:11--
10 https://jdic.dev.java.net/files/documents/880/16466/jdic-0.9.1-src.zip
11 => `jdic-0.9.1-src.zip'
12 Resolving jdic.dev.java.net... 64.125.133.206
13 Connecting to jdic.dev.java.net|64.125.133.206|:443... connected.
14 ERROR: Certificate verification error for jdic.dev.java.net: unable to
15 get local issuer certificate
16 To connect to jdic.dev.java.net insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
17 Unable to establish SSL connection.
18
19 It is usually not a problem for users because the file gets mirrored but
20 when doing version bumps I come across this again. As a solution I added
21 - --no-check-certificate to my FETCHCOMMAND so this will not bother me
22 again.
23 So what about adding this as the default for everyone? The verification
24 of the download is done on our side so we don't really need the ssl
25 certificate checking and it would probably be (very?) little faster
26 without checking. It could also prevent a couple of bug reports from the
27 users in the future.
28
29 Regards,
30 Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse)
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