Only works with http at the moment. Not https.
Big thanks to martinayotte and schufti for helping me get that going.
the url should be like
"www.google.com/go"
no
"http://www.google.com/go"
wget {variable name} {String or variable for url}
http://esp8266basic.com
A BASIC interpreter for your ESP
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