[chirp_users] chirp download problem

iain macdonnell - N6ML
Tue Dec 26 13:02:26 PST 2017


On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:26 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML <ar at dseven.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 11:00 AM, CN85rq <chirp-info at aberle.net> wrote:
>> I have a script which I use to keep fldigi updated.  It works by making
>> a temporary copy the download page URL, using grep to extract the name
>> of the latest tar.gz file, and then downloading and installing that file.
>>
>> However, wget now fails ... complaining about an expired certificate
>> (see output below).  Can an updated certificate be installed on the web
>> server?
>
> Looks like it's using a free cert from "Let's Encrypt", and may not be
> setup quite right (it doesn't appear to be supplying the intermediate
> CA cert). If you're not worried about security (e.g. someone trying to
> pretend to be danplanet.com and offer you a trojan horse), you could
> add "--no-check-certificate" to your wget command to work around
> this...

Actually, better workaround, without the security concern would be:

# do this once, and store it somewhere
wget https://letsencrypt.org/certs/letsencryptauthorityx3.pem.txt

# then...
wget --ca-certificate=letsencryptauthorityx3.pem.txt -nc
https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST

73,

    ~iain / N6ML



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