Re: LYNX-DEV HTTPS & Lynx?

[Foteos Macrides]

Roger Hill <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Jim Gerland wrote:
>
>> 
>> Well, we're using secure trtansactions for grades and student financial
>> data.  I doubt that we're the only university doing (or thinking of doing)
>> this.
>> Thanks,
>> Jim... 
>> 
>Follow the SSL links on the 'Lynx Links' page (start from browser.org),
>and you will find that you can do it using a proxy. It works.

        I suspect Jim is on VMS (at least, he used to be :) and the SSL
daemon has not been ported to VMS.  It uses forking, which could be
emulated on VMS, but it would be better, and not terribly difficult,
to use native VMS procedures for a detached daemon with equivalent
functionality.

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