Re: [Lynx-dev] Problems With A User/Password Login Submit

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, John Red-Horse wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > gnutls is reported to be rather buggy
> > (I've only tested it lightly, but recall reading bug reports).
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > You can build with OpenSSL on Linux also.  There's no technical reason
> > for preferring gnutls over OpenSSL.
>
> Thanks very much for this information; I'll see if I can talk the boys
> into trying that path first.

you can try - for Linux distributions, politics outweighs technical 
considerations (OpenSSL's license is said to be incompatible with GPL'd 
applications).

Of course it's possible that lynx isn't using gnutls properly - but the 
last I checked, it has no documentation whatsoever, and reading the source
code is no better.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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