[H-GEN] wget and https

Martin Pool mbp at linuxcare.com.au
Thu May 4 05:08:00 EDT 2000


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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Rob Kearey 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?)

Why not use lynx-ssl and 

 lynx -source https://openssl.org/ > openssl.html

Also, I think you will need to set

 $ export connect_proxy=http://myproxy.q.edu:80/

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