I believe I've encountered a bug in wget. When using https, if the server does a renegotiation handshake wget fails trying to peek for the application data. This occurs because wget does not set the openssl context mode SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY. When I added the line: SSL_CTX_set_mode (ssl_ctx, SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY); just after the line that sets PARTIAL_WRITE mode in ssl_init() in openssl.c everything worked again.
To reproduce, set up an apache server that only does client authentication for a protected directory. When wget does the ssl connect it negotiates the handshake. However, when it sends the request for the restricted directory the server will try to renegotiate with a client authenticated handshake. Wget will fail trying to read the application data, and continually retry. Jeremy