Wget not working for https

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My domain is:
martins-drive.zyxel.me
I ran this command:
wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
It produced this output:
wget: not an http or ftp url: https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
My web server is (include version):

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Trying to install on my NAS which is some version of linux.
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):

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What kind of device are you running? And what does wget --version output?

I’m guessing a Zyxel NAS looking at the TLD of your domain. Which would probably make your wget not a wget at all, but a BusyBox function which not always has TLS(/SSL) support build in. It seems your BusyBox was compiled without TLS support.

My own Zyxel NAS does have curl. However, its /etc/ssl/certs/ directory is empty… Therefore, it will give an error complaining about not able to get a local certificate to verify the connection.

With the following command you can download certbot-auto:

curl -o certbot-auto https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto

If it also complains about not being able to verify the SSL certificate, you can add the -k option. However, your download is then insecure. If you do this, you should check the validity of certbot-auto:

~ # sha256sum certbot-auto 
3b03c28a3d231e380c5b8616cfb6bcae15c24d507ae86bccaebe4420dc0613d4  certbot-auto
~ # 

The long value should be exactly the same.

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In one indication of the limitations of this verification strategy, the correct value has changed since yesterday (!) due to the release of Certbot 1.2.0.

The correct value is now 0b2548809531fa447352718d54b6271deffdb7d3be24762b01c801ee8f22ffbc and will continue to change regularly in the future as a result of ongoing Certbot releases.

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