lynx-dev Re: this client no spt HTTPS urls

[Webmaster Jim]

On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:30:54PM +0100, RobertM wrote:
> It is alleged that Doug Kaufman once typed:
> > On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, David Combs wrote:
> > You can use the eassl or edssl daemon as a proxy. This takes about
> > 370K of disk space on SunOS, once it has been built. You would have
> Has anyone got this working under NetBSD, or any BSD for that matter?
> I've managed to persuade it to compile, and even run but not to do
> anything useful, I just get an error log of:
> Secure proxy to bob.bob.bofh.org:443
>           to     212.32.9.66:443 (0)
> fixconn caused an exit: 1

I don't know about e?ssl proxies, but building the NetBSD package for
openssl and then following the directions in the FAQ I built a lynx
binary that can access https pages.

Refs:

http://www.slcc.edu/cgi-bin/lynx/fom?file=22
http://www.openssl.org/
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/security/openssl/README.html

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