Re: [Lynx-dev] Problem on running lynx

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, David Woolley wrote:

> > --- address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > > > > > 20061026 00:07 +0800, Stephen Liu >>>>
> > > SSL error: can't find common name in Certificate-Continue (y)
>
> This basically means you don't know who you are talking to, so you
> should not send anything that you wouldn't want to be public knowledge,
> or accept anything that you wouldn't accept from an anonymous source.
>
> I don't know if this is a real security error or a problem with
> Lynx.

The usual response by this point is to guide the user to the
documentation:

http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.6/lynx2-8-6/docs/README.sslcerts

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