Source URL mis-configuration - "Request to download update failed errors"

Question

If you are getting the following error when trying to download patches:
Request to download update 123456-01 failed. Update download
requests are not possible since the signing certificate is not valid.This can be caused if the patchpro.patch.source has been incorrectly defined without a trailing slash either in the configuration file or supplied as a parameter to the smpatch command. For example, a user may have defined;
     https://getupdates.sun.com/solaris
Instead of;
     https://getupdates.sun.com/solaris/
This issue has been raised in change request 6396877 and should be resolved in future version of Update Connection to append the trailing slash to the source.

Answer 1

I just can't replicate this in my lab environment, and I am thinking that this is some sort of collateral damage done by the July patch applied by the customer that breaks SQL replication and also causes WSUS Sync issues.  We didn't ever remove that
patch but instead implemented the SQL workarounds but this may just have resolved 'some' of the issues the patch caused.  The annoying thing is that the day we implemented the workaround and proceeded to uninstall/reinstall WSUS and resync SCCM, Microsoft
released the updated version of the patch later that day (UK time) - wonderful timing.
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