On Saturday 21 December 2013 16:51:56 L Walsh wrote: > mancha wrote: > > L Walsh <wget <at> tlinx.org> writes: > >> I recently started using 1.14 of wget included with my distro's updates: > >> GNU Wget 1.14 built on linux-gnu. > >> > >> Trouble is, it gives security warnings on almost every https > >> site I access. > >> > >> I can't think of 1 where I didn't have to override the security > >> warning (and this time, I just put it in my .wgetrc file). > >> > >> So why does wget get all these errors when my browsers don't? > > > > It appears your wget is built against the openssl library. For https > > certificate verification to work in wget automagically as it does in > > the major browsers, openssl needs a properly configured root > > certificate store (default location: /etc/ssl/certs). > > ----- > What format file does wget require?
in your build, wget uses openssl, and thus openssl is doing the cert parsing. wget has no idea about file format. > I noticed firefox points at the /etc/pki/nssdb that's because firefox uses nss, and nss does all the parsing -mike
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