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Does curl have a --no-check-certificate option like wget?

I am trying to make a curl request to one of our local development servers running a dev site with a self-signed SSL cert. I am using curl from the command line. I saw some blog posts mentioning that ...
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make install - how to use wget, not curl

I do not have root access on my Ubuntu but want to install git. I was following this tutorial but when running make or make install it says curl is not installed. Can I use wget instead if this is a ...
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Is there a way to use curl interactively? Or is there an interactive curl/wget shell?

Imagine something like this: $ curlsh http://www.example.org > GET /foo/bar/bam ...output here... > POST /thing/pool ... ... result here.... is there a tool that lets me do that?
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How can I update certificates on my system to fix wget's error: “Unable to establish SSL connection.”?

Sometimes I notice that I am unable to connect via SSL with curl and wget to websites that have certificates that should be valid. One example might be https://squareup.com/ which has a Verisign ...
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Predict filename before downloading from a URL, in shell script

I have a shell script that downloads files from a list using wget, and resumes automatically if there is any non-critical error (because of unstable WIFI during storms). The problem is, I want to ...
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What is the difference between curl and wget?

I am keen to know the difference between curl and wget. Both are used to get files and documents but what the key difference between them... Why are there two different methods?
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Throttle the download speed of wget or curl while downloading

Is it possible to throttle (limit) the download speed of wget or curl ? Is it possible to change the throttle value while it is downloading ?
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How to use wget or other tool to download a file, for which the link is hidden(activates on-click only)

I want to to download some subtitle files, stored in rar files form http://subs.sab.bz/ The site provides rss feeds for its new releases. Unfortunately, the link provided will open a download page, ...
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What is wget idiom for curl -o?

So I use code in some function like if [ ! -e $DOWNLOADS/$1 ]; then echo_run curl -L http://$4/$5/$1 -o $DOWNLOADS/$1 fi I wonder how to acheive same thing with out curl?
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How do I send a GET request via curl or wget? [closed]

How do I download a file retrieved via a GET request? I tried wget http://www.example.com/?page=download&dl=123 and wget http://www.example.com/dl.php?dl=123, but they don't work. Going to the ...
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Alert when a process exits

I often download files using wget and cURL. Is there anyway I can make my Linux box give a visual alert when either of those processes exit (i.e: the download completes) PS : I am using Ubuntu ...
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How to download all images whose size>100kb in a webpage?

I want to download images contained in some web pages, but only those that are larger than 100 KB. So far I've been downloading all the images and then deleting the small ones, but it's not very ...
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Set a network range in the no_proxy environment variable

I'm in a network using a proxy. I've got machines using lots of scripts here and there accessing each other over HTTP. The network is 10.0.0.0/8. My proxy is 10.1.1.1:81, so I set it up accordingly: ...
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Are there any good tools besides SeleniumRC that can fetch webpages including content post-painted by JavaScript?

One major shortcoming of curl is that more and more wepages are having their main piece of content painted by a JavaScript AJAX response that occurs after the initial HTTP response. curl never picks ...