[chef] Re: Re: Re: knife ec2 problem on windows: Unable to verify certificate

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

Here’s a thread on the RubyInstaller mailing list that explains the problem 
in more detail: 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyinstaller/DVIDvs7xKC0  ;

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Daniel DeLeo


On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

> On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > Yes, setting the SSL_CERT_FILE manually solves the problem but would 
> > rather avoid to add this if possible.
> >  
> > I'm wondering though, why it doesn't find the file automatically, as that 
> > seems to be the purpose of the code?
> >  
> > We're using the omnibus installer (just upgraded to 11.12.8), but also 
> > bundler for the various knife plugins. Is this mix causing a problem?
> >  
> > /Jeppe
>  
> Chef automatically configures its own HTTP (e.g., Chef::HTTP and Chef::REST 
> classes) client via the code I linked, but it doesn’t configure other HTTP 
> client code, such as fog (excon library). For reasons I don’t recall (I’ll 
> ask my colleagues), Ruby on windows either can’t or doesn’t configure a 
> default location to find the certificate bundle, so you have to specify the 
> path manually at runtime. This is different than on Unix where we configure 
> OpenSSL to use the embedded certificate bundle by default.
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>  
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> Daniel DeLeo