On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 04:37:02AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:55:38AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Package: lynx-cur > > Version: 2.8.8dev.15-1 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > On any https URL[*], I get te following error: > > > > SSL error:self signed certificate-Continue? (y) > > > > As accepting is regarded as a security problem (for most sites), > > one can consider that lynx no longer works with https URL's (or > > can tend to make users do insecure things), which is a major > > problem nowadays. > > > > [*] I've tried with: > > * https://gforge.inria.fr/ > > * https://www.gandi.net/ > > * https://www.vinc17.net/ > > * https://ent.ens-lyon.fr/ > > fwiw, lynx built according to the Debian options (with gnutls) works > fine on my Debian 6 machine (will investigate this evening to see > what's different in the current package or environment).
I'm not able to reproduce the problem, either by recompiling, or by installing this version on my Debian/testing system. For each configuration, lynx accepts the certificate and does not prompt. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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