Re: problem while trying to fetch 0.2.1.8-alpha

[phobos@xxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:58:15AM -0600, bennett@xxxxxxxxxx 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