Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 2.7.1 and secure servers

[David Woolley]

> 
>  Hello there. Perhaps I ahve missed something in all the talk of patent laws
> and the like but, is there a way I can avoid have the document/link/cancel'
> message appear when someone accesses a secure document in 2.7.1?

I think your real problem is that you are the only person on the list
experiencing the problem.  As I said, I get:

Alert!: This client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs.

with 2.7, ncurses, Linux 2.0.30 (Slackware 3.1 derived), with bug fixes
to 4th March, no proxies, when I do:

Edit a previous Goto URL: https://localhost/

It is possible that people on the list know they need an https proxy,
so don't try to access https with 2.7.1 and thus have never triggered
the bug.

Save D)ocument or L)ink to bookmark file or C)ancel? (d,l,c):

or ] (HTTP HEAD request):

Send HEAD request for D)ocument or L)ink, or C)ancel? (d,l,c):

(There's not enough information to distinguish these two cases, 
although you may have given it last time round.)

I've even tried a bogus proxy without getting the message - I don't
have a real http to https proxy (it tried to access the proxy).

One thought.  If you are in Canada, are you using French language messages;
it is possible that there was a cut and paste error in the construction of
the messages.  There has also been talk of message catalogues, although 
I didn't notice any in the NT port of 2.7.1 (I was waiting for an official
release with the security bugs fixed before upgrading the home version and
only have 2.7.1 in the office).  At least some implementations of 
message catalogue use a separate file, indexed by a message number.

If you are using an English language Lynx with compiled in messages,
you should be able to do the following:

djwhome:/usr/src/lynx/lynx2-7/src$ strings lynx | grep HTTPS
This client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs.
HTTPS
djwhome:/usr/src/lynx/lynx2-7/src$

to verify that the correct message is in the code.

If you actually want to access HTTPS, rather than just get a correct error
message, you are going to have to follow the links from the online help to
see if the people with the SSL proxies consider Canada a safe place to export
to, or implement it, yourself, from general principles.  You will also need
to check the patent and copyright situations, especially if you are
using this commercially.  Remember, whether or not software patents are
valid in Canada, the US builds are covered by the RSAREF software licence.
(There is also the question, if patents are valid, as to whether they have
been taken out.)
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