On 2012-01-11T13:30:43-0500, Mouse <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [...], but I neither have nor want HTTPS support, and [...] is not > >> _nearly_ important enough to me to outweigh that. > > That makes me a bit curious. Do you mind if I ask what the problem > > is that comes with HTTPS support? > > No, I don't mind at all. Go ahead and ask. > > :-) > > > What environment not supporting HTTPS do you use? > > The base OS is NetBSD, but that's mostly irrelevant. I don't Web much; > I find it difficult and unpleasant to use the Web (causality probably > goes both ways between that and not doing it much). When I do have > something that overrides my distaste for the Web, I use lynx. The lynx > I use does have hooks for https: support, and on at least two occasions > I've looked at building it in. In each case, I've gotten about four > levels deep in yak shaving before discovering it needs something > insanely heavyweight for the end goal (perl, maybe? I forget) and > scrapping the project.
Why don't you just use NetBSD's package management system? Looks to me like that will build-in TLS support by default. http://cvsweb.se.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/www/lynx/Makefile?rev=1.110 -- Kenyon Ralph
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