How do i get cURL to use https

Question

I\'m on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS. cURL\'s installed but does not include HTTPS as a protocol that it will use.

For example:

curl https://npmjs.org/install.         


        

Answer 1

I still don't know why using Aptitude installs a version without support for HTTPS but building from scratch did the trick:

git clone https://github.com/bagder/curl.git
sudo apt-get build-dep curl
cd curl
./buildconf
./configure
make
sudo make install 

Now curl -V yields

Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP UnixSockets

Oh and the reason I needed this in the first place is because NVM gave me N/A when trying to download a version of Node or get a listing of available versions with nvm ls-remote. That was caused by cURL not working for HTTPS requests.