Re: [Lynx-dev] Debian Port of Lynx and SSL

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Martin McCormick wrote:

> > That tells me that my lynx.cfg sets it to "no", but it's overridden
> > by my .lynxrc file, which sets it to "prompt".
>
>         Hmm.  I don't have a .lynxrc file on either of the systems
> exhibiting the problem and I suspect that is the trouble.  All my
> trace file shows about SSL is:

that's a little unusual, but it's supposed to work

> LYReadCFG FORCE_SSL_PROMPT:NO
> User message: SSL error:Can't find common name in certificate-Continue? no
>
>         I am somewhat confused in that there is a system-wide file for
> lynx.cfg which in the Debian case is /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg.

yes - that's because it started out as system-only.

>         If one has a local lynx.cfg file in one's home directory, any
> similar directives in it override the global lynx.cfg file.  I have
> never quite understood the value of .lynxrc in relation to those other
> two files.

yes - one can use the "include" feature in a lynx.cfg file

something like

include:lynx.cfg

in your own file, specified by either the -cfg option to lynx, or the
environment variable $LYNX_CFG

>         Where is the documentation that describes this?  I imagine
> that this is the real reason for the ssl unhappiness reported from
> lynx.

lynx.cfg is mostly documented in its own comments.

The .lynxrc file was originally (mostly)  separate, but some of the 
features in lynx.cfg were adapted there.  There's a limit to that of 
course, since .lynxrc stores things that the Options menu would control, 
and that's not generated automatically from lynx.cfg

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