lynx ssl error

[Chris Norman]

While we're on the subject of Lynx, is there a guide with using it with 
speakup?

I'm relatively new to using linux, and have been forced to use it without 
the security (personal not mechanical:)) of my windows box, and found using 
the www really hard.

Any links are appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at hhs48.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: lynx ssl error


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> Greg,
>
> What you are dealing with is the flip side of authenticating yourself to
> the server. It is the way the server hopes to authenticate itself to
> you. The only text browser I know of that takes this flip side seriously
> is edbrowse. The way it works is that the server sends your browser some
> info encrypted with its own private key, and expects you to have the
> server's public key, or certificate, with which you can verify that the
> server you are connecting to is truly who you think it is. Most text
> browsers just blow this off, and move right along to the usual
> authentication phase, where your client sends some authenticating info
> to the server to establish a secure link.
>
> Edbrowse supports a certificate collection for a large number of hosts
> to which you might connect, and will actually implement the
> authentication mechanism so you will not be tricked into creating a
> secure channel to a fraudulent host.
>
> HTH
> ]
> Chuck
>
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:55:19PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> 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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