Hi: Lynx requires libssl from the openssl packages in order to do ssl. But to clarify, the original poster was asking about using ssl with wget. Certainly, there doesn't seem to be a wget-ssl debian package which suggests that it can't do it (well not in woody anyway)...but I don't know for sure. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang at uq.net.au> ICQ number 43634701 Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html