[aur-general] github switched to SSL everywhere

Chris van Dijk quigybo at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 6 08:57:43 CET 2010


On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:29:18 +0200
Ionuț Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 11/06/2010 08:28 AM, Chris van Dijk wrote:
> >
> > Recently github switched over to using SSL for their entire website
> > [1]. Currently wget does not accept the wildcard *.github.com in the
> > certificate:
> >
> > $ wget http://github.com/
> > --2010-11-06 15:45:12--  http://github.com/
> > Resolving github.com... 207.97.227.239
> > Connecting to github.com|207.97.227.239|:80... connected.
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
> > Location: https://github.com/ [following]
> > --2010-11-06 15:45:12--  https://github.com/
> > Connecting to github.com|207.97.227.239|:443... connected.
> > ERROR: certificate common name `*.github.com' doesn't match
> > requested host name `github.com'.
> > To connect to github.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
> 
> do you have ca-certificates installed?

$ pacman -Q ca-certificates 
ca-certificates 20090814-3


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