This is the best way to upgrade wget on Centos 5.x hosts
cd ~ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.16.tar.gz yum -y remove wget tar -xzvf wget-1.16.tar.gz cd wget-1.16 ./configure --with-ssl=openssl --with-libssl-prefix=/usr/lib64/openssl --prefix=/usr make && make install
