On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, David Kretzmer wrote:

> I'm trying to connect to a server via HTTPS using a non-standard port:
> curl https://www.example.com:8080
> but I'm getting the following error:

...

> If I don't specify a port everything works fine. Any ideas?

The server probably serves you different certificates on the different ports,
and the one on 8080 is then probably self-signed or otherwise not verifyable
by your ca cert bundle.

Verbose output with -v probably reveals this.

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