Changeset 31826

Timestamp:

2017-07-27T22:16:11+12:00 (7 years ago)

Author:

ak19

Message:

Documenting a fallback solution to get wget to retrieve https pages without overtly requiring us to pass the --no-check-certificate flag. The fallback solution is not committed, in case there's a better way, but it has been tested to work.

File:

• main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/wget/README (modified) (1 diff)

main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/wget/README

@@ -120 +120 @@
 Can turn off requiring a certificate check for https URLs in wgetrc conf file, as explained here:
 https://superuser.com/questions/508696/wget-without-no-check-certificate
-However, the linux system wget and windows wget binary are not setting this in their wgetrc file, so how is the certificate check off for them by default?
+And the location of wgetrc: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Wgetrc-Location.html (for now setting the env var WGETRC in $GSDLHOME/setup.bash, which points to $GSDLHOME/bin/linux). Then the locally built linux wget 1.17.1 works, and so would v 1.15.
+
+However, the linux system wget and windows wget binary v 1.17.1 are not setting thisvariable in their wgetrc file, so how is the certificate check off for them by default? The windows wget binary v 1.15 does require the no-check-certificate flag, but v 1.17.1 works out of the box. So why does the 1.17.1 version I built on linux behave like the 1.15 on Windows binary (and built on Linux), which required the flag?