Alrededor de ESXi 6.7, el wget de busybox incorporado finalmente comenzó a admitir https.
Finalmente, puedes hacer descargas https en ESXi.
¡Hurra!
Esto es de ESXi 6.7 Actualización 2.
[root@ESXi-X9SRI-3F:/tmp] wget https://www.example.org
Connecting to www.example.org (93.184.216.34:443)
index.html 100% |******************************************************************************************| 1270 0:00:00 ETA
[root@ESXi-X9SRI-3F:/tmp] wget --help
BusyBox v1.29.3 (2018-11-02 15:37:50 PDT) multi-call binary.
Usage: wget [-c|--continue] [--spider] [-q|--quiet] [-O|--output-document FILE]
[--header 'header: value'] [-Y|--proxy on/off] [-P DIR]
[-S|--server-response] [-U|--user-agent AGENT] URL...
Retrieve files via HTTP or FTP
--spider Only check URL existence: $? is 0 if exists
-c Continue retrieval of aborted transfer
-q Quiet
-P DIR Save to DIR (default .)
-S Show server response
-O FILE Save to FILE ('-' for stdout)
-U STR Use STR for User-Agent header
-Y on/off Use proxy
[root@ESXi-X9SRI-3F:/tmp] vmware -l
VMware ESXi 6.7.0 Update 2
Mientras que 6.5U2 todavía no lo soportaba (creo que ESXi 6.7 tampoco lo era, pero ya no tengo una caja para esto en esto):
[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:/tmp] wget https://www.example.org
wget: not an http or ftp url: https://www.example.org
[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:/tmp] wget --help
BusyBox v1.22.1 (2018-07-23 19:34:04 PDT) multi-call binary.
Usage: wget [-csq] [-O FILE] [-Y on/off] [-P DIR] [-U AGENT] URL...
Retrieve files via HTTP or FTP
-s Spider mode - only check file existence
-c Continue retrieval of aborted transfer
-q Quiet
-P DIR Save to DIR (default .)
-O FILE Save to FILE ('-' for stdout)
-U STR Use STR for User-Agent header
-Y Use proxy ('on' or 'off')
[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:/tmp] vmware -l
VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Update 2