Gmail, conky, and certificates

Question

I am using a script that shows if I have new messages on gmail. the script is:
import os
import string
#Enter your username and password below within double quotes
# eg. username="username" and password="password"
username="xx"
password="xx"
com="wget -O - https://"+username+":"+password+"@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom --no-check-certificate"
temp=os.popen(com)
msg=temp.read()
index=string.find(msg,"<fullcount>")
index2=string.find(msg,"</fullcount>")
fc=int(msg[index+11:index2])
if fc==0:
print "0 new"
else:
print str(fc)+" new"
When I run conky, I receive these errors:
--2008-02-07 06:04:38--  https://username:*password*@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
Resolving mail.google.com... 66.249.83.19
Connecting to mail.google.com|66.249.83.19|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify mail.google.com's certificate, issued by `/C=ZA/O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd./CN=Thawte SGC CA':
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to mail.google.com|66.249.83.19|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify mail.google.com's certificate, issued by `/C=ZA/O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd./CN=Thawte SGC CA':
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/xml]
Saving to: `STDOUT'
    [ <=>                                    ] 369         --.-K/s   in 0s     
2008-02-07 06:04:43 (98.3 MB/s) - `-' saved [369]
As far I ask I can tell, this wasnt happening before. This error seems to slow down conky.
Any ideas on how to fix it?
Thanks

Answer 1

yabbadabbadont wrote:
I've submitted a package to the AUR called, 'ca-certificates', that is a port of the Gentoo ebuild by the same name.  It provides the common root certificates.
In the mean time, wget has an option that you can use to tell it to not try to validate certificates.  It will still print out the annoying warnings though.  The option is "--no-check-certificate".
EDIT: I guess it helps to read the previous posts more closely...  I see that you are already using that option. 
EDIT2: I just tested the gmail wget command with my own gmail account.  (I have the ca-certificates package installed of course )  It worked without any of the annoying certificate warnings.
Nice - thanks yabbadabbadont.