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* doc/wget.texi: add hint for self-signed certificates

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Ángel González 2015-12-10 23:02:14 +01:00 committed by Giuseppe Scrivano
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@ -1725,9 +1725,12 @@ this option to bypass the verification and proceed with the download.
site's authenticity, or if you really don't care about the validity of
its certificate.} It is almost always a bad idea not to check the
certificates when transmitting confidential or important data.
If you are really sure of what you are doing, you can specify
--check-certificate=quiet to tell wget to not print any warning about
invalid certificates, in most cases this is the wrong thing to do.
For self-signed/internal certificates, you should download the certificate
and verify against that instead of forcing this insecure mode.
If you are really sure of not desiring any certificate verification, you
can specify --check-certificate=quiet to tell wget to not print any
warning about invalid certificates, albeit in most cases this is the
wrong thing to do.
@cindex SSL certificate
@item --certificate=@var{file}