Ignore certificate warnings

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli, security

Research direction

Start at the exercism configure entry point and trace how the client establishes HTTPS connections and validates certificates. Check for existing certificate or configuration tests; done should mean the client has a documented, tested way to handle an organization’s certificate authority without silently weakening TLS verification.

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Description

Hi all,

My organization proxies / MITMs HTTPS. As a result, I get the following error on exercism configure:

Error: The base API URL 'https://api.exercism.io/v1' cannot be reached.

Get https://api.exercism.io/v1/ping: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

Is there a way to tell the client to ignore certificate warnings (or is there a way to point it to an alternate certificate)?

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