wget fails with our private repos

Question

Hello,
We have set up private repos for our company. I am running some scripts that use wget to validate an http link before cloning and the wget fails. Can someone tell me how I can enable wget for my private repo?  I could not find anything in Settings that seemed relevant. Thanks.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2022-01-26 10:36:22 ERROR 404: Not Found.

If I use the same exact URL with git clone, it works fine, so I know there is nothing wrong with the URL.

Srinivasan, Usha · Answer

The steps to clone used are: wget git clone This cannot be changed and I need this to work with our repos.

Srinivasan, Usha · Answer

No it is not a bitbake question. 
wget https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc.git but ours at
https://github.com/cornelis/<repo>.git does not.  And, we need the latter to work. Is it because our how our repo is hosted?

Srinivasan, Usha · Answer

Unfortunately, I am using bitbake/poky to build and I cannot change that.  The wget on github.com/openbmc repos do not fail which is why I'm wondering if there is some setting that needs to be changes.