Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ? (fwd)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, A. R. Vener wrote:

>
> After using lynx 2.8.4 for several years,
> I finally upgraded to lynx 2.8.5.
>
> It seems to work, but when I access https sites, I get the message:
> ssl error unable to get local issuer certificate. continue? (y):

Here's some relevant discussion of the error message:
        http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2003-03/0094.html

There was some discussion of certificates on the mailing list last fall,
which is reflected in the 2.8.5 documentation, which may be helpful.

>
> hitting 'y'  gets past the ssl error and I connect.
>
> This problem never happened with lynx 2.8.4. Why does it happen with lynx 
> 2.8.5 and
> what can I do about it?
>
> In both cases I installed the same openssl package, 0.9.7b.
>
> In both cases I installed openssl first and then lynx, both from source 
> packages.
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions.
>
> Rudy Vener
>
>
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