web.cacerts warnings with 1.7.3, how to fix and/or disable check?

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 01/03/2011 12:42 PM, Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote:
> I updated to 1.7.3 today and I'm getting warnings about certificate
> checks on the following sites:
>
> * bitbucket
> * kiln
> * codeplex
>
> I assume I would get it on all sites that use https://
>
> So, I wonder if there's any documentation/tutorials telling me how to go
> about getting rid of those warnings. I'm a programmer, and I've been
> taught (by experience) that getting rid of warnings is a good thing. If
> Mercurial 1.7.3 is going to teach me to just ignore that it gives me a
> warning, the one time it is going to warn me about something useful, I
> will miss it. So I'd like to get rid of the warning.

I hope that you also have learned that warnings are there to help you. 
You should act on them and make them go away by fixing whatever they 
point at. Getting rid of warnings by disabling them isn't a solution.

>     warning: hg01.codeplex.com <http://hg01.codeplex.com> certificate
>     not verified (check web.cacerts config setting)

Please help us improve the message and the documentation:

How did you understand the "check web.cacerts config setting" part? 
Where did you go, what did you find there and what did that [fail to] 
tell you?

/Mads