wget has issues negotiating tls

[Prashanth Chengi]

Version/Edition: Linux Mint 1 'Debian'
The wget that installs on LMDE seems to have problems when negotiating with an https server which is configured to trust local CAs. The error produced is as below.

pchengi@thebeast:~$ wget https://esg-dn1.nsc.liu.se/esg-orp
--2014-06-27 17:23:36-- https://esg-dn1.nsc.liu.se/esg-orp
Resolving esg-dn1.nsc.liu.se (esg-dn1.nsc.liu.se)... 130.236.100.123
Connecting to esg-dn1.nsc.liu.se (esg-dn1.nsc.liu.se)|130.236.100.123|:443... connected.
GnuTLS: Resource temporarily unavailable, try again.
Unable to establish SSL connection.

pchengi@thebeast:~$ wget --version
GNU Wget 1.14 built on linux-gnu.

+digest +https +ipv6 +iri +large-file +nls -ntlm +opie +ssl/gnutls

Wgetrc:
    /etc/wgetrc (system)
Locale: /usr/share/locale
Compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSYSTEM_WGETRC="/etc/wgetrc"
    -DLOCALEDIR="/usr/share/locale" -I. -I../lib -I../lib
    -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include -g -O2 -fstack-protector
    --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security
    -DNO_SSLv2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -Wall
Link: gcc -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat
    -Werror=format-security -DNO_SSLv2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -Wall
    -Wl,-z,relro -L/usr/lib -lgnutls -lz -lz -lidn -luuid ftp-opie.o
    gnutls.o ../lib/libgnu.a

Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <email address hidden>.
Please send bug reports and questions to <email address hidden>.

pchengi@thebeast:~$ ldd `which wget`
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff4f5c2000)
        libgnutls.so.28 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.28 (0x00007f6a22982000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f6a22743000)
        libidn.so.11 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libidn.so.11 (0x00007f6a2250f000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f6a22509000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f6a2215d000)
        libp11-kit.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libp11-kit.so.0 (0x00007f6a21f1a000)
        libtasn1.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtasn1.so.6 (0x00007f6a21d06000)
        libnettle.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnettle.so.4 (0x00007f6a21ad6000)
        libhogweed.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhogweed.so.2 (0x00007f6a218a6000)
        libgmp.so.10 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007f6a2162e000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f6a22c96000)
        libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 (0x00007f6a21426000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f6a21221000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f6a21005000)

[Dmitry Katsubo (dma-k)]

I have the same problem with wget 1.17.1.