lynx ssl error

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi Greg. I haven't gotten that specific error you speak of before however, I have gotten warnings with a self-signed cert being different than that of the URL I am visiting. In lynx.cfg, try 
setting FORCE_SSL_PROMPT:yes; perhaps that will fix your problem. HTH.
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:55:19PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Hi all.
> 
> Whenever I go to https:// URL with lynx the cat, I get the following harmless error:
> 
> SSL error:Can't find common name in certificate-Continue? (y)
> 
> . Pressing y or enter continues on, pressing n doesn't continue on. I
> did some googling, and came across a message posted by Lorenzo from
> this list to the debian users list:
> 
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2004-04/1620.html
> 
> . As you can see, the only response to that message was to read the
> lynx docs. Besides that, my search didn't turn up anything else that
> is helpful, and that is also in English. I have looked through the
> table of contents of the lynx user's guide, but didn't see anything
> there about https, or ssl.
> 
> Lorenzo, if you're reading this, and found a solution, or anyone else
> who knows what the solution is, what do I need to do in order to avoid
> being asked this question over and over again, and to just have lynx
> automatically load the page please? Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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