[H-GEN] wget and https

[Rob Kearey]

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Steven Lawrance wrote:

> > After rereading the man page for wget it just mentions http and ftp.  Does
> > anyone know a workaround??

> wget in its current form doesn't support https.  Patching it to use ssl
> sounds like an interesting project though.. (unless someone else has?)

Well, there's Apache::ReverseProxy:

http://dominia.org/djao/reverseproxy.html

It's a bit of an ugly (for varying values of "ugly") hack, though. I
can't seem to find an SSL'ed version of wget, and I agree that'd be a
useful and interesting project.

> Steven Lawrance        RSA 2048/0x9F030653

Rob K

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