Re: [Lynx-dev] Improved support for SSL certs

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Joey Schulze wrote:

> Dear Lynx developers,
>
> I was looking for a way to tell Lynx to accept the certificates that
> the package ca-certificates in Debian collects and maintains.
>
> I noticed that apparently Lynx only accepts the mention of a file
> containing all valid certificates via the environment variable
> SSL_CERT_FILE but did not support a configuration option.
>
> I would like to use a system wide setting since it would integrate
> lynx well in the Debian CA architecture.  I hope that this does not
> infer with your goals of certification support.
>
> I'd be glad if a new release of Lynx would support this and  thus
> sending you the patch that adds this.  I'd be glad if you could
> include it as is or modified, as you like.
>
> The patch is made against 2.8.7dev.7.

thanks (on my to-do list - at the moment am buried in pre-release work
for vile...)

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