fImports not working. Error: certificate common name doesn't match requested host name

[K Marks]

I am getting the following error for this code;

library(fImport)
x <- fredImport(query = "MPRIME")

--2016-07-25 15:51:22-- http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MPRIME/downloaddata/MPRIME.txt
Resolving research.stlouisfed.org... 65.89.18.120
Connecting to research.stlouisfed.org|65.89.18.120|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MPRIME/downloaddata/MPRIME.txt [following]
--2016-07-25 15:51:23-- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MPRIME/downloaddata/MPRIME.txt
Resolving fred.stlouisfed.org... 65.89.18.120
Connecting to fred.stlouisfed.org|65.89.18.120|:443... connected.
ERROR: certificate common name “research.stlouisfed.org” doesn’t match requested host name “fred.stlouisfed.org”.
To connect to fred.stlouisfed.org insecurely, use ‘--no-check-certificate’.
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Warning message:
In download.file(url = url, destfile = tmp) :
  download had nonzero exit status

I believe this is a bug, a possible fix could be in file R/import-fred.R line 84, add the argument: extra = "--no-check-certificate" to the function download.file(), as suggested in the error message, i.e.

download.file(url = url, destfile = tmp, extra = "--no-check-certificate")

Which should bypass the certification of the url. I have written this into a function fredImport2 to test and this is the response;

x <- fredImport2(query = "MPRIME")

--2016-07-25 15:57:05-- http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MPRIME/downloaddata/MPRIME.txt
Resolving research.stlouisfed.org... 65.89.18.120
Connecting to research.stlouisfed.org|65.89.18.120|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MPRIME/downloaddata/MPRIME.txt [following]
--2016-07-25 15:57:05-- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MPRIME/downloaddata/MPRIME.txt
Resolving fred.stlouisfed.org... 65.89.18.120
Connecting to fred.stlouisfed.org|65.89.18.120|:443... connected.
WARNING: certificate common name “research.stlouisfed.org” doesn’t match requested host name “fred.stlouisfed.org”.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Saving to: “/tmp/RtmpRzvEEZ/file384c1e7da42”

     0K .......... ..... 144K=0.1s

2016-07-25 15:57:05 (144 KB/s) - “/tmp/RtmpRzvEEZ/file384c1e7da42” saved [16117]

Read 824 items

(using ‘fImport’ version 3000.82, on RStudio Server, Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit),
Running under: CentOS release 6.3 (Final))