Hey guys,
One problem I've run into is that most of the modern ways to host a file (github, dropbox, various object storage solutions) have all migrated to mandatory HTTPS for their URLs.
This is a problem for the busybox wget which comes on the stock Pogoplug Linux installation, because it can't deal with HTTPS.
I've built a statically-linked wget binary which has HTTPS support (and is compatible with 2.6 kernels), and I'm hosting it on Amazon S3, which supports plain-old-HTTP URLs.
http://pogoplug.s3.amazonaws.com/wget
I thought some of you might find it useful :)
Later tonight I'll create a simple github page with the instructions about how it was built, in case anyone wants to build their own / doesn't trust binaries from strangers.
-jason
One problem I've run into is that most of the modern ways to host a file (github, dropbox, various object storage solutions) have all migrated to mandatory HTTPS for their URLs.
This is a problem for the busybox wget which comes on the stock Pogoplug Linux installation, because it can't deal with HTTPS.
I've built a statically-linked wget binary which has HTTPS support (and is compatible with 2.6 kernels), and I'm hosting it on Amazon S3, which supports plain-old-HTTP URLs.
http://pogoplug.s3.amazonaws.com/wget
I thought some of you might find it useful :)
Later tonight I'll create a simple github page with the instructions about how it was built, in case anyone wants to build their own / doesn't trust binaries from strangers.
-jason