How to bypass a local certificate problem

["Raymond, Craig A (US)" <cr...@baesystems.com>]

I've download 11.2 (zip file) and during startup it attempts to download specific files, for example:

https://hg.netbeans.org/binaries/344C8C2A8B421A52ABE725A677BF75659C17FEB6-nb-javac-13-impl.jar

It fails to connect on the Linux box I am working on, and Firefox on that box states the web site has security issues.  I can download from my Windows machine successfully.

I will attempt to "push the rope" to get the Linux boxes certificates corrected, but in the meantime...


1)      Is there a directory in which I could place these files and have NetBeans find it during startup?

2)      When this occurs is there a log somewhere that I could look at to copy/paste the failing URL, for the subsequent files?

I don't believe we can use CoolBeans as this is a commercial environment.  11.1 downloaded successfully, so perhaps it used different URLs?

Thanks in advance.

Craig Raymond