With wget 1.17 (at least), $ wget -nv --no-check-cert https://www.gnu.org -O /dev/null WARNING: cannot verify www.gnu.org's certificate, issued by 'CN=Gandi Standard SSL CA 2,O=Gandi,L=Paris,ST=Paris,C=FR': Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems like pointless noise to complain that a certificate cannot be verified when wget has been explicitly told not to check it. Looking at the source, the only way I see to get rid of the warning is with --silent, which would also eliminate real errors. I have the sense that at one point the cert warning was not issued in this case, but I didn't go back and check old versions. Thanks, Karl
