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

One alternative is to replace the "https" with "http" in the url that you're trying to download from to just circumvent the SSL connection. Not the most secure solution, but this worked in my case.