qt download and site certification

[sktsee]

On 10/03/2011 06:23 AM, Alain Muls wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am working on a program that downloads GPS almanac data from a site
> and then performs calculations.
> The site I want to use is gps.afspc.af.mil/gps/archive/ and a file I
> want to download is e.g.
>
> https://gps.afspc.af.mil/gps/archive/2011/ALMANACS/YUMA/200.ALM
>
> This gives me problems with the site certification using the program
> download or downloadmanager as found in the examples directory.
> I think I must use ssl certification, but I do not knwo howto do this.
>
> I can download the file with wget as follows:
> wget --no-check-certificate
> https://gps.afspc.af.mil/gps/archive/2011/ALMANACS/YUMA/200.ALM
>
> How can I introduce this --no-check-certificate in download or downloadmanager.
>

I'm not sure which specific program you're using here. Download or 
downloadmanager are pretty generic terms, and an apt-cache search on 
"download" brings up an awful lot of packages. Even narrowing the search 
with grep still lists quite a few packages. However, if you know the 
program you are using is a graphical front-end to wget, you can 
create/edit the configuration file ~/.wgetrc to include the line, 
"check-certificate = off", and it will tell wget to bypass validity 
checking for ssl certs. I just tried it with the Gnome gwget program and 
was able to download the ALM file without a hitch.

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sktsee