macos - How to fix curl: (60) SSL certificate: Invalid certificate chain

Question

I get the following error running curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh on Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks):

install npm@latest
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: Invalid certificate chain
More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

First off, you should be wary of urls that throw SSL errors. That being said, you can suppress certificate errors in curl with

curl -k https://insecure.url/content-i-really-really-trust