Using https with wget

The version of wget installed on a debian box seems to not like doing https by default due to not knowing about the CA certificates.

Here's a solution I found:

Download cacert.pem from http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html and put it in /etc/ssl/certs

Then amend /etc/wgetrc to add the line

ca_certificate=/etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem

Then wget knows about the CA certificates and all is well for https