It appears that cURL is failing to even start a valid TLS session with GitHub, so it's not even getting to certificate validation where -k would be useful:
> curl -vk https://cloud.github.com/downloads/square/PonyDebugger/bootstrap-ponyd.py
> curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to cloud.github.com:-9824
It might be worth removing the -k option from the README entirely, since it's spooky to execute unauthenticated Python code, and since it fails silently (at least in this case.)
Just noticed this is a duplicate of #116.
Running the bootstrap script per the instructions fails silently: no output, no ponyd.
It appears that cURL is failing to even start a valid TLS session with GitHub, so it's not even getting to certificate validation where
-k
would be useful:Simply removing the
-k
option worked fine for me:It might be worth removing the
-k
option from the README entirely, since it's spooky to execute unauthenticated Python code, and since it fails silently (at least in this case.)This may or may not be related to the GitHub certificate weirdness on OS X.
curl version: