SSL certificate problem

[ocattau]

I am trying to run Blast on Jupyter notebooks, but when I try to open the code I was given here: https://owl.fish.washington.edu/halfshell/genomic-databank/hemat_transcriptome_v1.5.fasta using

!curl https://owl.fish.washington.edu/halfshell/genomic-databank/hemat_transcriptome_v1.5.fasta I keep getting an SSL certificate problem. This is probably because I haven't figured out how to tell the Jupyter command line how to log into a uw account.

[kubu4]

Change your command to one of the following:

!curl http://owl.fish.washington.edu/halfshell/genomic-databank/hemat_transcriptome_v1.5.fasta

OR

!curl --insecure https://owl.fish.washington.edu/halfshell/genomic-databank/hemat_transcriptome_v1.5.fasta

The problem has to do with the server certificate which is installed on that server (owl). Removing the s from https eliminates the certificate requirement when fetching files. Alternatively, telling curl that the site is "insecure" tells curl to ignore any certificate junk.

Sorry for the hassle!