Sometimes the precompiled wget binaries refuse to work with your ssl linked libraries. The simple solution is to compile a new wget binary to be used with your ssl libraries.
wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/wget-1.8.2.tar.gz tar xvzf wget-1.8.2.tar.gz cd wget-1.8.2 ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-ssl make make install
If you're using FreeBSD, you'd need to use –prefix=/usr/local instead of /usr. Obviously, if you don't have wget to begin with, you'd need to use another tool to download the wget source code, like “fetch” or “lynx”.