Description of problem: wget is failing to download files from a protected URL that requires client certificates Curl works without issues and wget/curl on RHEL 7 also have no issues Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 8 wget-1.19.5-10.el8 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to download a file with wget by using a client certificate: wget --no-proxy --certificate=./customer_client.crt --private-key=./customer_client.key 'https://www.example.com' Actual results: error message and file is not downloaded: ***** HTTP request sent, awaiting response... GnuTLS: An unexpected TLS packet was received. Read error (Success.) in headers. Retrying. Expected results: the file should be downloaded Additional info: The following stanza is used on the server. <Location ~ "/(info|sbf-exp|ex-file|vmware_to_alloc)"> SSLVerifyClient require SSLVerifyDepth 5 </Location> verbose wget output: wget --verbose --no-proxy --certificate=./customer_client.crt --private-key=./customer_client.key 'https://www.example.com' --2022-05-24 10:17:11-- https://www.example.com Resolving www.example.com (www.example.com)... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to www.example.com (www.example.com)|127.0.0.1|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... GnuTLS: A TLS fatal alert has been received. GnuTLS: received alert [40]: Handshake failed Read error (Success.) in headers. Retrying. --2022-05-24 10:17:13-- (try: 2) https://www.example.com Connecting to www.example.com (www.example.com)|127.0.0.1|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... GnuTLS: A TLS fatal alert has been received. GnuTLS: received alert [40]: Handshake failed Read error (Success.) in headers. Retrying. --2022-05-24 10:17:15-- (try: 3) https://www.example.com Connecting to www.example.com (www.example.com)|127.0.0.1|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... GnuTLS: A TLS fatal alert has been received. GnuTLS: received alert [40]: Handshake failed Read error (Success.) in headers. Retrying.