Beta Branch axel 2.6 centos 6 workaround for openssl download url in 123.09beta01

axel 2.6 centos 6 workaround for openssl download url in 123.09beta01

axel 2.6 doesn't support if download url is forced to HTTPS as it complains of too many redirects errors and was fixed in axel 2.11 but centos 6 only supports axel 2.6 while centos 7 installs axel 2.11. This is a workaround to just use wget instead of axel for centos 6

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123.09beta01 branch

• Branch: https://github.com/centminmod/centminmod/tree/123.09beta01
• Commit History: https://github.com/centminmod/centminmod/commits/123.09beta01

 

something funky going on with openssl.org downloads

axel complains of too many redirects so switch to wget but that reports

Code (Text):

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Download openssl-1.1.0.tar.gz ...
2016-09-05 18:15:57 URL:https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0.tar.gz [5146831/5146831] -> "openssl-1.1.0.tar.gz" [1]
http://: Invalid host name.
FINISHED --2016-09-05 18:15:57--
Total wall clock time: 0.4s
Downloaded: 1 files, 4.9M in 0.2s (28.4 MB/s)
Error: openssl-1.1.0.tar.gz download failed.
check Centmin Mod log for details at /root/centminlogs/
Aborting script...
Total Nginx Upgrade Time: 6.594606234 seconds

ah it's /etc/resolv.conf related seems using web hosts resolves didn't work for openssl.org domain

 

strangely this only happens on openssl.org https downloads, other downloads over https work fine with axel 2.6 !