Re: [Lynx-dev] LYNX & BOOKSHARE

[Shel Talmy]

I've been with BOOKSHARE since inception, am using what I believe to be 
the latest version of LYNX, 2.8.7 that has SSL support and which I've used 
successfully for BOOKSHARE and all other sites who have implemented SSL.

Today's call to BOOKSHARE's tech, told me they've overhauled SSL to 
improve security and have updated access to "all" popular browsers a la 
Firefox etc., but not to LYNX, which had me repeating entries and never 
showed my account when it allegedly logged me in.  The tech steered me to 
the link for "my bookshare" and that did reveal my account, and the tech 
said the login procedure would 'work' with differences which I haven't 
explored yet.  And he said as LYNX was not in the loop of updates, that it 
might be prudent to email them as I did and see if they were aware of the 
BOOKSHARE changes.

So was hoping a LYNX programmer would look into the 'problem' and and get 
LYNX back to where it was, as now searches do not produce results as they 
previously did and I won't bore you by being specific.

Bottom line is IMO, LYNX as used with BOOKSHARE could use an examination 
by a programmer, and maybe a chat with one of BOOKSHARE's programmers.

If there's a newer version of LYNX that addresses these problems, I'd 
appreciate info on it so I can update.

Thanks.

Shel Talmy


On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> Yes,
> As I shared I use bookshare with lynx, and ssl almost daily if not every 
> other day...used it this morning in fact.
> what edition of lynx are you running?
> Kare
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2014, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
> > Shel Talmy dixit:
> >
> > > Hi, to whom is concerned with updating, just recently "BOOKSHARE" the 
> > > books for
> > > the blind distrib org (bookshare.org) changed accessibility to "SSL" so 
> > > that
> > > trying to access it from LYNX is now problematical.
> >
> > You just need a version of Lynx with SSL support.
> >
> > bye,
> > //mirabilos
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