2010/3/31 piper.guy1 <piper [ dot ] guy1 [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> > I need to use 'wget' to do a secure file download. It works great at > the command line. Unfortunately wget asks for the PEM passphrase. > However this will eventually be part of an embedded application so the > passphrase prompt can't happen. > > 1. Can you create PEM's in OpenSSL without a passphrase? > Afaik, yes. > 2. Should i use Curl which seems to provide an option for passphrases. > 3. Any better suggestions (fairly new to security). > How are you going to embed it? Are you going to fork() wget from the parent app? You can then just open a pipe to wget's stdin/stdou file descriptors and once you get the passphrase prompt, you can send the actual passphrase to wget. Rafael > > thanx > /carl > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >