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Re: [Sheflug] fetching documents with https



On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 10:43, N.P.Strickland [at] sheffield.ac.uk wrote:
> Does anyone know of tools that run under linux that can fetch
> documents from a web server using https?

lynx -source, wget, etc...

> Curl looks promising, but it
> wants me to supply certificates for authentication.  I don't know
> anything about certificates, I just have a username and password

Same here. In HTTPS, the server provides _you_ with a certificate. Curl
might be asking you to provide root certificates: basically, so it can
authenticate any certificates the server sends it. This isn't
necessarily useful - you may be connecting to a server which doesn't
have a valid cert ;)

Just try lynx -source and see where you get. Remember, you need lynx
from non-US (i.e., the https enabled version ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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