On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:58:15AM -0600, benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote 2.8K bytes in 55 lines about: : 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.
Could you try wget -v or wget -d? Here's what a successful wget looks like: wget -d https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.sha1 DEBUG output created by Wget 1.11.4 on linux-gnu. --2009-01-23 11:23:26-- https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.sha1 Resolving www.torproject.org... 86.59.21.36 Caching www.torproject.org => 86.59.21.36 Connecting to www.torproject.org|86.59.21.36|:443... connected. Created socket 3. Releasing 0x0000000001b123b0 (new refcount 1). Initiating SSL handshake. Handshake successful; connected socket 3 to SSL handle 0x0000000001b12570 certificate: subject: /C=US/ST=MA/L=Dedham/O=The Tor Project, Inc./OU=Anonymity Online/CN=*.torproject.org issuer: /C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert Global CA X509 certificate successfully verified and matches host www.torproject.org ---request begin--- GET /dist/tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.sha1 HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.11.4 Accept: */* Host: www.torproject.org Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:23:27 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:53:51 GMT ETag: "11830a-4a-4400cdc0" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 74 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/x-gzip Content-Language: en ---response end--- 200 OK Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse. Length: 74 [application/x-gzip] Saving to: `tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.sha1' 100%[==================================================================================================================>] 74 --.-K/s in 0s 2009-01-23 11:23:27 (912 KB/s) - `tor-0.2.1.11-alpha.tar.gz.sha1' saved [74/74] -- Andrew