On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/15/2016 6:47 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> How do I get past this? I was looking to just self sign for https. > > in my admittedly limited experience with this stuff, you need to create your > own rootCA, and use that to sign your certificates, AND you need to take the > public key of the rootCA and import it into any trust stores that will be > used to verify said certificates. If you don't do this, then there's no real point using SSL at all, and you *should* be forced to override security with arguments: wget --no-check-certificate curl --insecure etc. jh