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Quick Tip – HTTPs now supported with wget on ESXi 7.0

06/18/2020 by William Lam 3 Comments

This morning I needed to install the USB Network Native Driver Fling for ESXi and realized that offline bundles can not be installer over a remote URL. I figure I would download it directly to my ESXi host using wget. As soon as I hit the enter key to send the command I quickly remember that this will fail as the version of wget in the ESXi Shell does not support HTTPs. To my surprise, it actually worked! šŸ˜

[[email protected]:~] wget https://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/USBNND/ESXi700-VMKUSB-NIC-FLING-34491022-component-15873236.zip
Connecting to download3.vmware.com (184.29.106.37:443)
ESXi700-VMKUSB-NIC-F 100% |**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************| 341k 0:00:00 ETA

This looks to be an enhancement in ESXI 7.0 and you no longer will get the "bad address" error when specifying an HTTPs URL as shown in the example below when running against the latest ESXi 6.7 Update 3 release.

[[email protected]:~] wget https://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/USBNND/ESXi700-VMKUSB-NIC-FLING-34491022-component-15873236.zip
wget: bad address 'download3.vmware.com'

Thank you to the Engineer who fixed this, this was a very pleasant and welcome surprise that I know will also be helpful to folks who automate using ESXi Scripted Installations.

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Filed Under: Automation, ESXi, vSphere 7.0 Tagged With: ESXi 7.0, wget

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  1. David K. Lee says

    06/18/2020 at 7:51 am

    Those are some of the best surprises. šŸ™‚

    Reply
  2. Alex says

    11/09/2020 at 5:29 am

    This is weird. I get another error this time.

    [[email protected]:/vmfs/volumes/5fa819c9-37114d2a-b902-3cfdfed7bdac/isos] wget https://nyifiles.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-CE-2.4.5-RELEASE-p1-amd64.iso.gz
    Connecting to nyifiles.pfsense.org (162.208.119.41:443)
    wget: error getting response: Cannot assign requested address

    Reply
    • snowkiterdude says

      02/19/2021 at 12:29 pm

      Found a solution in on this page: https://infiniteloop.io/esxi-6-7-synology-nfs-vaai-plug-in/

      run this command first then wget will work.
      esxcli network firewall ruleset set –enabled=true –ruleset-id=httpClient

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William Lam is a Senior Staff Solution Architect working in the VMware Cloud team within the Cloud Services Business Unit (CSBU) at VMware. He focuses on Automation, Integration and Operation for the VMware Cloud Software Defined Datacenters (SDDC)

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