Trust me this is the best and easy method to install the wget utilty using Homebrew. Method #1: Install wget on Mac OS using brew (recommended method)

Download, compile and install wget on macOS Sierra.

Easy method #1: Install Homebrew and type command ‘ brew install wget‘ on macOS Sierra/Monterey or above.

We can provide another certificate authority like our company local certificate authority with the -cacert option. Certificate Authority is the top certificate which is provided by Certification Authority firms. Certificate chains provide a trust relationship between hierarchical certificates where the leaf is the site certificate we want to navigate. In some cases, we may need to use another certificate chain then internet. $ curl -E wk.cert Provide a Certificate Authority Certificate Explicitly In this example, we will use a certificate named in wk.cert order to connect. If we do not want to use web site provided certificate and provide sites HTTPS certificate manually we can use -E or -cert option with the certificate file. $ curl -insecure Allow Insecure Connections Provide Site HTTPS Certificate Manually In order to prevent this error and accept an insecure certificate, we need to provide -insecure This will accept all provided certificates without complaining about it. $ curl curl SSL/TLS Problems Allow Insecure Connections As an example, we will try to access and we will get an error like curl: (51) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'AND we run following command. The error detail is printed to the terminal. Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali: $ sudo apt install curl Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali: Fedora, CentOS, RHEL: $ sudo yum install curl SSL/TLS ProblemsĮspecial in self-signed or expired X.509 or SSL/TLS certificates may create problems.

We will start with the installation of the curl tool with the following command. We will examine how to solve these curl HTTPS related problems. Curl also supports HTTPS protocol which is secure version of the HTTP. Curl is a command line tool and library which implements protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP etc.

How to install curl on mac