Getting error trying to compile Wget with OpenSSL

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Howdy,

I'm trying to compile wget with openssl. Unfortunately I can't seem to find much on Google for doing this, the closest so far has been: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=134822
Following the steps, I've downloaded the source package version 1.12 and tried the following code:

./configure --with-ssl

But I'm getting the error:

configure: error: --with-ssl was given, but SSL is not available.

I'm not an expert by any means with security / ssl etc but it seems I already have openssl installed:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
openssl is already the newest version.

Any help you can give to suggest a method of completing the installation with ssl would be great!

[rollin]

Bump!

Still googling this but no luck so far! I'm still hoping someone has managed to do this and could give some advice please ?!

[Bachstelze]

Why do you want to compile wget? I'm pretty sure the version in the repos has SSL support.

[rollin]

Why do you want to compile wget? I'm pretty sure the version in the repos has SSL support.

Oh right that's embaressing! To explain better I'm trying to get wget to run on port 993 for IMAP over SSL. I'm running the gmail.py script from here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=680265

The command in the script is: wget -O - https:// etc and having run sudo netstat -antp I can see it is running on port 443. Which I appreciate is the https default port.

I had a look at the wget manual though: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/man...9-Options.html and wanted to add an option such as --secure-protocol=SSLv2 but the script stops working!

So am I just approaching it the wrong way or is there a way to test what protocol it is adopting without specifying one?

Sorry if it's a bit random!