The OVF Tool can read sources given by a URL using both HTTP and HTTPS. You access it with the user name and password. The following example downloads the LAMP OVF package and puts it in an OVA package. If you omit the user name and password, the OVF Tool will prompt you for them.
> ovftool https://user:[email protected]/repository/ovf/LAMP.ovf LAMP.ova
