Commonly, a commercial SSL certificate is issued by an intermediate Certificate Authority (CA). In turn, the intermediate CA is issued by an upper-level intermedia CA, or by a Root CA.
The path from the leaf certificate to the intermediate certificates, and finally to the root certificate is called the certificate chain.
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If an SSL certificate has a broken certificate chain, then you can use this tool to fix it.
