[Chicago] Is pypi.python.org really running with a self-signed cert?

[Adam Bain]

Definitely not self-signed, on my browser its signed by DigiCert. SHA256
fingerprint beginning with 9f249e91. Not really sure whats causing your
error, do you maybe need to tell curl about which root certs to trust?

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015, 9:16 PM Robare, Phillip (Randstant) <proba at allstate.com>
wrote:

> I was trying to get my environment set up on a new work computer (Cygwin
> with cygwin's python 2.7 under Windows) so I downloaded and ran
> ez_setup.py.  It errored on a line where it calls curl to download
> setuptools.  I pulled the line out and ran it from the command line without
> the -silent parameter.
>
> $ curl https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/
> setuptools-12.3.zip
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
>    0
> curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
> More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html
>
> curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle"
>  of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default
>  bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file
>  using the --cacert option.
> If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in
>  the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a
>  problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might
>  not match the domain name in the URL).
> If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use
>  the -k (or --insecure) option.
>
> Some weirdness with Cygwin?  So I tried it with insecure mode.
>
> $ curl --insecure https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/
> setuptools-12.3.zip
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
>    0
> curl: (56) SSL read: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0), errno 104
>
> Not much more enlightening.  So I tried wget.
>
> $ wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/
> setuptools-12.3.zip --2015-03-05 16:17:06--  https://pypi.python.org/
> packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-12.3.zip
> Resolving pypi.python.org (pypi.python.org)... 23.235.40.223
> Connecting to pypi.python.org (pypi.python.org)|23.235.40.223|:443...
> connected.
> ERROR: The certificate of 'pypi.python.org' is not trusted.
> ERROR: The certificate of 'pypi.python.org' hasn't got a known issuer.
>
> Does anyone else have a problem with pypi's certificate?  Or a work-around
> for getting ez_install to run?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil Robare
>
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