Gawk can only open a raw socket. All protocol handling has to be
done in the awk script itself.
It would be much easier to retrieve the page using wget or cups,
they both can handle https. Then process the result in awk.
Alternatively, you might want to run some local proxy to translate
https to http, vice versa, and connect gawk to that proxy.
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Regards,
Kees Nuyt