On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Paolo Piace <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stefan, hello. > > It's by fortunate chance that I stepped into your "Lynx SSL support for > certificates". > > These SSL things are totally new to me. I'm working on this only because I am > not able to login to Etrade with Lynx and I've evidence that Lynx cannot find > the proper certificate for Etrade: > > With the SSL_CERT_FILE in lynx.cfg set as /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt, > lynx on www.etrade.com responds: > > "SSL error:issuer is not a CA-Continue?" > > Leaving the SSL_CERT_FILE commented (as default), lynx on www.etrade.com > responds: > > "SSL error:no issuer was found-Continue?" > > So, I downloaded and unbundled your ssl.certs.shar in the /etc/ssl/certs/ > where ALL OTHER certificates are. > > Then, just for trying, I concatenated all the extracted certificates into a > file named ca-certificates.crt_caunterdotcom, placed it into /etc/ssl/certs/ > and set the SSL_CERT_FILE as /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt_caunterdotcom. > > Response from lynx: "SSL error:no issuer was found-Continue?" > > At this point I'm clueless what to try next... > > Important note: my system is Ubuntu based and does NOT have the > /usr/local/ssl/ directory. Problem is that libcrypto.so (there is no > libcrypto.a in the system) shows that SSL_CERT_DIR is /usr/local/ssl/certs, > which does NOT exist! How is that libcrypto.so points to a directory that > does not exist?
Yes, that's OpenSSL - you need to put the certs in that directory and make sure they are hashed. The .shar file has done this for you. Make sure that the SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_CERT_DIR variables are exported to your shell. I am able to connect with no ssl error to https://www.etrade.com with lynx2.8.7dev.13 > > Lacking of competence on the matter and after having gone through your > valuable document, I need to refer to you for further hints as there is not > much competence out there either. My postings on two related forums were > unanswered. > > Essentially and basically, I need to login to Etrade with Lynx. > > Would you kindly give me some feedback. > > Thanks and Regards, > Paolo Piacentini > > ________________________________ > Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Celebrate the moment with your favorite sports pics. > Check it out. _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
