Re: [Bug-wget] the gnu.org wget manual

[Ángel González]

On 22/06/12 01:08, John wrote:
> I then ran the same command, but nothing different happened.  Finally,
> I ended up changing the command by adding this option,
> "--no-check-certificate". This time it worked.  Nevertheless, it would
> seem to me that I ought to be able to get, of all things, the wget
> manual from Gnu with a secure connection. To be honest, I have to
> believe that many others here likely have encountered the same issue. 
> What part of this picture am I missing? Thanks.
>
> John
wget isn't using windows certificate store. It is expecting a openssl
like certificate folder.
You would have the same problem if manually using openssl.exe (openssl
s_client).
It's unfortunate not being able to use windows certificates, but there
doesn't seem to be an (easy?) way to query if a certificate is ok.
AFAIK, the windows APIs expect to completely deal with the connection
themselves.

Improvements in that field would be welcome, of course.