Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx: found a way to crash it :-(

[Stefan Caunter]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:40 PM, David Combs <address@hidden> wrote:
> Easy way to get Lynx to abort:
>              Lynx 2.8.5rel.1 (04 Feb 2004) ([1]latest release)
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>  www.progressive.org/default    progressive-magazine
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>   "[93] radio: progressive point of view"
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>   answer NO to everything about security
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>  it aborts!
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> CRASH!
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> I sure hope you can duplicate the problem!
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>
> David

Perhaps I am missing something but this looks like an exit, not a
crash, based on answering 'n' to the "Continue?" prompt, as I read the
trace.

2.8.5 is four and a half years old too.

>
> Confirm: SSL error:self signed certificate in certificate chain-Continue? (y) 
> GETCH: Got 0x6e.
> LYReadCmdKey(4) ->n (0x6e)
> - NO.
> HTTP: Unable to complete SSL handshake for 
> 'https://www.progressive.org/radiodaily', SSL_connect=-1, SSL error stack 
> dump follows
> HTTP: SSL: error:14090086:SSL 
> routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
>
> Alert!: Unable to make secure connection to remote host.
>

Stef
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