Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx-dev Digest, Vol 148, Issue 1

[iohann]

ok. thanks. reached out to askubuntu today.

only response received is: "have a closer look at documentation" ... 
which i'm doing.

again, thanks for your response.

iohann

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> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:13:29 -0500
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> Subject: [Lynx-dev] ssl - compile - https
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> cannot get compiled lynx to work with https.
>
> ./configure --with-ssl
> make
> sudo make install
>
> seems to go well. no error messages.
> lynx installs at /usr/local/bin/lynx
>
> yet, starting /usr/local/bin/lynx, then attempting to access https site
> fails with message: this client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs
>
> i am running ubuntu 16.04.
>
> "sudo apt-get install lynx"
> works smoothly, installs at /usr/bin/lynx and permits access to HTTPS.
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanks in advance for help.
>
> iohann
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:25:08 -0500
> From: zoho <address@hidden>
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> should have mentioned:
>
> $/usr/local/bin/lynx --version
> reports:
> Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.9 (10 Apr 2016)
> libwww-FM 2.14, ncurses 6.0.20160213
> Built on linux-gnu (Jul  6 2016 15:05:21).
>
> lynx in ubuntu package: $/usr/bin/lynx --version
> reports:
> Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.8 (21 Dec 2015)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.4.9, ncurses 6.0.20160213(wide)
> Built on linux-gnu.
>
> thanks,
>
> iohann
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:40:43 -0500
> From: zoho <address@hidden>
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> Subject: [Lynx-dev] ssl - compile - https
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> and compile reports (in part):
> checking if you want ssl library... yes
> ...
> checking if you want gnutls-openssl compat... no
> ...
> checking if you want to use pkg-config... yes
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin//pkg-config
> checking pkg-config for openssl... no
> checking pkg-config for libssl... no
>
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> Subject:        ssl - compile - https
> Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:13:29 -0500
> From:   zoho <address@hidden>
> To:     address@hidden
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>
>
> cannot get compiled lynx to work with https.
>
> ./configure --with-ssl
> make
> sudo make install
>
> seems to go well. no error messages.
> lynx installs at /usr/local/bin/lynx
>
> yet, starting /usr/local/bin/lynx, then attempting to access https site
> fails with message: this client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs
>
> i am running ubuntu 16.04.
>
> "sudo apt-get install lynx"
> works smoothly, installs at /usr/bin/lynx and permits access to HTTPS.
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanks in advance for help.
>
> iohann
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 21:10:27 -0400
> From: Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
> To: zoho <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] ssl - compile - https
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> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 03:13:29PM -0500, zoho wrote:
> > cannot get compiled lynx to work with https.
> >
> > ./configure --with-ssl
> > make
> > sudo make install
> >
> > seems to go well. no error messages.
> > lynx installs at /usr/local/bin/lynx
> >
> > yet, starting /usr/local/bin/lynx, then attempting to access https
> > site fails with message: this client does not contain support for
> > HTTPS URLs
> >
> > i am running ubuntu 16.04.
> hmm - I just installed 16.04 today to look at a different issue.
> I'll check/see if I can reproduce this.