Getting "Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority" error from wget in RHEL 5

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When downloading from certain SSL URLs, wget throws the error "Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority".

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5

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