Whoops, I'm also unwell today and not thinking clearly. But in any case HTTPS works too:
$ wget https://www.google.com --2011-09-21 14:52:14-- https://www.google.com/ Resolving www.google.com... 209.85.147.147, 209.85.147.99, 209.85.147.103, ... Connecting to www.google.com|209.85.147.147|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://encrypted.google.com/ [following] --2011-09-21 14:52:14-- https://encrypted.google.com/ Resolving encrypted.google.com... 209.85.147.100, 209.85.147.101, 209.85.147.102, ... Connecting to encrypted.google.com|209.85.147.100|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: `index.html'
[ <=> ] 11,434 --.-K/s in 0.07s
2011-09-21 14:52:15 (165 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [11434]
$ curl -sS https://launchpad.net <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> [...]
Whoops, I'm also unwell today and not thinking clearly. But in any case HTTPS works too:
$ wget https:/ /www.google. com /www.google. com/ com|209. 85.147. 147|:443. .. connected. /encrypted. google. com/ [following] /encrypted. google. com/ google. com... 209.85.147.100, 209.85.147.101, 209.85.147.102, ... google. com|209. 85.147. 100|:443. .. connected.
--2011-09-21 14:52:14-- https:/
Resolving www.google.com... 209.85.147.147, 209.85.147.99, 209.85.147.103, ...
Connecting to www.google.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https:/
--2011-09-21 14:52:14-- https:/
Resolving encrypted.
Connecting to encrypted.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'
[ <=> ] 11,434 --.-K/s in 0.07s
2011-09-21 14:52:15 (165 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [11434]
$ curl -sS https:/ /launchpad. net www.w3. org/TR/ xhtml1/ DTD/xhtml1- transitional. dtd">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://
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