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lynx-dev EXTERNAL: https support? (was too long)
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Philip Webb |
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lynx-dev EXTERNAL: https support? (was too long) |
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Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:10:48 -0400 (EDT) |
980811 Jacob Poon suggested:
> Shouldn't Lynx support https via externals (from lynx.cfg ),
> to produce cleaner code without breaking the law?
> ie Lynx would contain only code for handling data
> via existing https connections,
^ : surely a typo for `http'
> but use only a third-party executable to negotiate https connections
> via an executable configured by Lynx's 'EXTERNAL:' settings,
> will the Lynx source still be legal and GNU free?
it should be, since there would be nothing in Lynx itself to offend
& its ability to call up external programs presumably must be open-ended.
> it will greatly simplify https support.
> users can simply download a compiled binary
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> to let Lynx go to those places, without recompiling.
do such programs exist? in binary?
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Re: lynx-dev Alert: this client does not contain support for HTTPS urls., David Woolley, 1998/08/12