I understand, though don't completely agree with, Tim's pessimistic scenario. In any case, my wish is that there be a way to get rid of the warning message (other than being completely silent). Whether it is done via changing --no-check-cert or via some new/other option doesn't matter to me.
I am using wget from a script, as surely many people do, and it is far too annoying for every invocation of wget to give a useless warning message. At present, I'm using curl -sS instead :(. On the other front, IMHO the text of the warning message is immaterial. Either people will understand, or care enough to look it up and figure out what's happening, or no text will be good enough. thanks, k
