Bug 569716 has been zapped but still affects Fedora 14, and no one has reopened it in a month after my comment, so I am cloning it.  If the noise annoys you, see bug 573535.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #569716 +++

Description of problem:

In order to save on IP addresses for multiple related SSL sites, we wish to implement SAN/UCC SSL Certs with multiple 'altername name' fields. We have done this in testing and have found that several of our clients back end systems do not check the altername name and throw security errors. We use wget for much scripting, and I have tested against our test site and found it does not follow this part of this rfc. This can be worked around with --no-check-certificate but it would be better if wget could correctly validate these certs natively so that security can be preserved.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Tested on "GNU Wget 1.12 built on linux-gnu." but all versions expected incompatible. 

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a server with a SANS/UCC SSL Certificate
2. Attempt to download a test file via a URL specified in the Alternate Name Field
3. Observe error.
  
Actual results:

[ant@ant ~]$ wget 'https://syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au/cc/cc2.cgi?cid=58111226666'
--2010-03-02 17:00:42--  https://syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au/cc/cc2.cgi?cid=58111226666
Resolving syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au... 222.222.222.222
Connecting to syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au|222.222.222.22|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au’s certificate, issued by “/C=US/ST=Arizona/L=Scottsdale/O=GoDaddy.com, Inc./OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository/CN=Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority/serialNumber=123456”:
  Unable to locally verify the issuer’s authority.
ERROR: certificate common name “xxxxxxxxx.net.au” doesn’t match requested host name “syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au”.
To connect to syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au insecurely, use ‘--no-check-certificate’.


Expected results:

[ant@ant ~]$ wget 'https://syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au/cc/cc2.cgi?cid=58111226666'
--2010-03-02 17:21:32--  https://syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au/cc/cc2.cgi?cid=58111226666
Resolving syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au... 222.222.222.22
Connecting to syd.xxxxxxxxx.net.au|222.222.222.22|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: “cc2.cgi?cid=58111226666”

    [ <=>                                                                                                   ] 2,910       --.-K/s   in 0.03s   

2010-03-02 17:21:32 (97.7 KB/s) - “cc2.cgi?cid=58111226666” saved [2910]

Additional info:

This functionality is defined in RFC3280 part 4.2.1.7.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt

If this functionality was supported and pushed upstream to the wget project it would probably do a lot of people a lot of good in both the wallet and for security. This would also be very good for RHEL, but im hoping its seen here and also ends up in RHEL 6. :)

--- Additional comment from matt on 2010-08-15 03:59:25 EDT ---

This is fixed upstream but unreleased:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?20421

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--- Additional comment from matt on 2010-12-03 22:06:46 EST ---

The problem still exists with wget-1.12-2.fc13.x86_64 in Fedora 14.

$ wget https://mattmccutchen.net/
--2010-12-03 21:47:34--  https://mattmccutchen.net/
Resolving mattmccutchen.net... 75.119.219.170
Connecting to mattmccutchen.net|75.119.219.170|:443... connected.
ERROR: certificate common name “www.mattmccutchen.net” doesn’t match requested host name “mattmccutchen.net”.
To connect to mattmccutchen.net insecurely, use ‘--no-check-certificate’.