[cs631apue] Issues with fetching apue tarball over SSL

[Jan Schaumann]

Mohak Shah <mshah5 at stevens.edu> wrote:

> I’m running NetBSD on an M1 Mac using UTM. While trying to fetch apue-code.tar.gz over ssl, I’m getting a seemingly SSL related error (screenshot<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ksAhTfF0VDSeQRk0ui2WrkD04LnODguA/view?usp=sharing>).

You're correct.  This is because on M1, we are running
NetBSD-current, a development version, that often has
code changes that haven't been tested for release.  In
this case, we are running into a change that made
https certificate validation problematic.

See this thread for the full discussion, if you're
interested:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2022/09/02/msg013520.html

Using http instead of https here works around that
problem, as you've noted.  I've updated the docs
accordingly.

-Jan

P.S.: When reporting errors from the command-line, it
is often easier to simply copy/paste the text from the
terminal instead of taking a screenshot.