On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 08:00:31 +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >Try precisely this: > > curl -sSvg -L \ > https://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/Y/YE/YEWENBIN/Goo-Canvas-0.06.tar.gz > \ > >foo.tar.gz Hi Ralph, done: [rocketmouse@archlinux curl_search_cpan_01]$ curl -sSvg -L https://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/Y/YE/YEWENBIN/Goo-Canvas-0.06.tar.gz >foo.tar.gz * Trying 46.43.35.68:443... * Connected to search.cpan.org (46.43.35.68) port 443 (#0) * ALPN, offering h2 * ALPN, offering http/1.1 * CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt * CApath: none } [5 bytes data] * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): } [512 bytes data] * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): { [108 bytes data] * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): { [1202 bytes data] * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, unknown CA (560): } [2 bytes data] * SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate * Closing connection 0 curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above. [rocketmouse@archlinux curl_search_cpan_01]$ Regards, Ralf