Re: LYNX-DEV https failure?

[Al Gilman]

  From: Jim Kirkpatrick <address@hidden>
  Subject: LYNX-DEV https failure?
  To: address@hidden
  Sender: address@hidden

  I just got Lynx 2-7-1 for VMS, compiled it (after commenting out
  the definitions of htons and ntohs; will this be fixed in 2-7-2?),
  but it fails as follows:
  
    Alert!  This client does not contain support for https URLs.
  
Lynx out of the box does not support https.

From the online Help:
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                                       URL Schemes Supported in Lynx (p3 of 21
The http and https URLs:

[...]
   The https URL has the same format, but the default port is :443.
   Patches for support of https URLs and the CONNECT procedure are
   available for qualified recipients via links in the [18]Lynx links
   pages. US Export laws and associated red tape pose severe impediments
   to inclusion of this support in the general distributions of freeware
   WWW clients such as Lynx. Sorry.
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  (I did try looking in the archives, but they only go through the end
  of 1996; this appears to be similar to issues in the "Lynxisms explored"
  document, but not exactly).
  
Start at http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/ and you will find more recent
archives.

Start at http://lynx.browser.org/ to find Lynx links and other marvels.

I have added "HTTPS" to the SSL entry where this is explained in

http://www.access.digex.net/%7Easgilman/lynx/FAQ/

PS: please use address@hidden and not @austin.sig.net; the latter
is going away eventually.
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Al Gilman
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