wget ssl alert handshake failure

Question

I am trying to download files from an https site and keep getting the following error:

OpenSSL: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert ha         


        

Answer 1

I was having this problem on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (well beyond EOL, I know...) and got around it with:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ca-certificates