Re: fetching via wget?

[Daniel Horecki <morr+lists%morr.pl@localhost>]

is%netbsd.org@localhost writes:

> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 03:27:34PM -0700, Brook Milligan wrote:
>> I am working with a package that apparently needs the following
>> command in order to fetch the distfile:
>> 
>>      wget --no-check-certificate https://host/distfile.tar.gz
>> 
>> What is the proper way to handle this?  Is there an alternative to
>> actually using wget?
>
> Using NetBSD: ftp https://host/distfile.tar.gz
>
> I'm not sure how handling of certificates is handled by ftp.
>
> Regards
>       -is

Our ftp can't handle HTTPS.

Regards,

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