Re: ssl/certificate issue for website

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, bruce  said:
> hi.
>
> trying to do a simple curl for the college site
> curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11)
> Gecko/2009061118 Fedora/3.0.11-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.11" -L
> https://isiscc.smc.edu/pls/apex/f?p=123:1:3916268190676791 -vvv

They have a VeriSign-signed SSL cert, but they probably didn't follow
the directions and install the intermediate cert correctly (it might
work in Firefox because it includes more CA certs).  Only the server
admins for isiscc.smc.edu can fix that.

Until they get it fixed, you can bypass cert validation with the
"--insecure" option to curl or the "--no-check-certificate" option to
wget.  It isn't recommended because it defeats the purpose of SSL.