Are you connecting to an SSL website (https)? Wget, last I checked, didn't check SSL certificates so it works with self-signed ones. Curl, on the other hand does try to check certificates and will have trouble with self-signed ones unless you pass it a command line option.
Cheers, Tanner On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:47:45 -0500, Dan Monjar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some curl help... I typically use wget to get stuff. It works > fine from behind the corporate firewall. But if I try to use curl I get > a 'curl: (7) couldn't connect' immediately. The firewall has most ports > blocked but why would curl use different ports than wget? > > -- > Dan Monjar > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=8127171 (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
