Problems accessing websites using curl and wget between RHEL8 and RHEL7

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Issue

  • Unable to access secured websites using curl and wget between RHEL8 and RHEL7.
   # curl -v https://secure.site.com
   * Rebuilt URL to: https://secure.site.com/
   *   Trying 10.10.10.10..
   * TCP_NODELAY set
   * Connected to secure.site.com (10.10.10.10) port 443 (#0)
   * ALPN, offering h2
   * ALPN, offering http/1.1
   * successfully set certificate verify locations:
   *   CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt 
    CApath: none
   * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
   * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
   * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS alert, protocol version (582):
   * error:1425F102:SSL routines:ssl_choose_client_version:unsupported protocol
   * Closing connection 0
   curl: (35) error:1425F102:SSL routines:ssl_choose_client_version:unsupported protocol

   # wget --verbose https://secure.site.com
   --time-stamp--  https://secure.site.com
   Resolving secure.site.com (secure.site.com)... 10.10.10.10)
   Connecting to secure.site.com (secure.site.com)|10.10.10.10)|:443... connected.
   GnuTLS: A packet with illegal or unsupported version was received.
   Unable to establish SSL connection.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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