lynx-dev Re: Need Win32 Lynx with support for HTTPS URLs

[Webmaster Jim]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:30:47AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, James Roberts wrote:
> > > Where can I get Lynx for Win32 that supports HTTPS URLs.
> > > I am running Windows 98 and have downloaded Lynx for WIN32 from 
> > > http://www.jim.spath.com/lynx_win32/ but this does not seem to support 
> > > HTTPS. Where else should I look?
> > I don't think you should spend much time looking. As far as I know there
> > is no publically available binary with https support for Win32. You can
> > build your own, using the Win32 compiler of your choice. I have built
> > it using the free Cygwin compiler, but don't have personal experience
> > with the other Windows compilers. If you don't want to build it yourself
> You can also build it (using OpenSSL) with Visual C++ (5 or 6, I believe)
> though there is a caveat in OpenSSL's documentation which indicates it may not
> work.  I added a few lines to the top-level makefile.msc in 2.8.5dev.7, which
> can be uncommented and used for this purpose.

The version distributed via www.cygwin.com appears to contain https support:

$ lynx -version
Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.6b
Built on cygwin Aug  8 2001 09:50:20

Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information.

See http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/ for information about SSL for Lynx.
See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL.

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