Comment 9 for bug 854927

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

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">
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