Re: [Lynx-dev] Improved support for SSL certs

[Joey Schulze]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> I was looking for a way to tell Lynx to accept the certificates that
>> the package ca-certificates in Debian collects and maintains.
>>
>> I noticed that apparently Lynx only accepts the mention of a file
>> containing all valid certificates via the environment variable
>> SSL_CERT_FILE but did not support a configuration option.
>>
>> I would like to use a system wide setting since it would integrate
>> lynx well in the Debian CA architecture.  I hope that this does not
>> infer with your goals of certification support.
>>
>> I'd be glad if a new release of Lynx would support this and  thus
>> sending you the patch that adds this.  I'd be glad if you could
>> include it as is or modified, as you like.
>>
>> The patch is made against 2.8.7dev.7.
>
> thanks (on my to-do list - at the moment am buried in pre-release work
> for vile...)

That's ok.  I appreciate your work.  Keep going!

Regards,

        Joey

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