Using cURL, wget, and OpenSSL for remote web issues

If you've come to the conclusion that during your immense troubleshooting session that the issue you're facing is one of the following, then some of these tools might be for you:

• Something to do with the connectivity to a remote site
• Something to do with the certificates associated with a remote site

Getting ready

SSH to your CentOS VM:

$ vagrant ssh centos1

cURL and OpenSSL should be universal at this point, and you can expect a system to have them by default.

Wget is a bit more elusive, and is rarely part of a default install, but it's easy enough to install:

$ sudo yum install wget -y

At the moment, OpenSSL is everywhere, but due to a string of high-profile...