Hi,
I'm using wget in a script, and want to use HTTPS instead of HTTP if
wget supports it. Therefore I'm looking for a supported way to determine
whether a certain instance of wget supports HTTPS.
Looking through the source of various wget versions, I found this to be
one way:
wget --help | grep HTTPS
This works because wget (>= 1.10) only shows the HTTPS options if it's
compiled with SSL support. As far as older releases are concerned, I
could check for the old deprecated SSL options or always use http with
those old binaries.
Is there a better way to perform the check I need? Is the method I use
now supposed to be supported in ongoing versions of wget?
Thanks in advance! BTW, I'm not subscribed to the list, so a Cc: would
be nice.
Martin.
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