[Bug-wget] Check for SSL support in wget

[Martin Paul]

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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