there is a force ssl yes setting in options but likely updating the system cert bundle will solve the error
—stef > On Sep 12, 2021, at 13:37, David Woolley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/09/2021 18:02, dan d. wrote: >> SSL error:certificate has expired-Continue? (n) > > I would take that at face value, and assume that it is the site's certificate > that has expired. In that case, the secure solution is not to access that > site until the site has updated its certificate. > > Certificates expire because cryptographic advances can compromise them and > because, the longer a single private key is used, the more opportunity there > is for someone to crack it. > > If I'm right about it being a problem for the site, rather than for Lynx, you > need to make a judgement as to how concerned you would be if someone had > access to the contents of your session with the site, and whether you are > making critical decisions based on the site providing the correct data. If > these cause significant concern, you should not override the warning. If you > don't care, you can safely override, but I don't think there is a way of > registering a permanent override. > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
