Lynx & SSL

[Steve Holmes]

Slak 8.0 comes with lynx 2.8.3rel1. I generally like slackware for
structureal things but I do wonder about some of the versions of some of
the included packages. They were pretty current on other things but I
wonder if Lynx slips under the rug a bit or something.

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Wow. Not good.
>
> Not sure when lynx began shipping with ssl, but it's been some time. It
> happened after the U.S. lifted restrictions on encryption technology
> exporting--and that was back in 1999, I think.
>
> My lynx, which came via the Redhat 7.1.94 install is 2.8.4rev1. The lynx
> home page at www.lynx.browser.org lists 2.8.3 as current, and that should
> include ssl. What version do you have? Do:
>
> 	lynx --version
>
>  On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Holmes,
> Steve wrote:
>
> > I thought the lynx distributed with slackware 8.0 was SSL enabled.
> > Apparently out of the box it does not do that.  I just tried it and got an
> > error saying that https was not supported.  Do I have to change some configs
> > to do this or do I have to rebuild the program? I do have the openssl
> > package installed so that part should be ready.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
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