Delphi & The Apple II

[joko@crl4.crl.com (Joe Kohn)]

For those of you who would like to sign up for free web access to Delphi's
A2 Forum, a slight problem appears to exist for those of us using lynx.
 
Because Delphi is on a secure server, your browser must be able to accept
"cookies"...so you have to be using the latest lynx v2.7.1. Additionally,
lynx apparently has to be patched so that it can support "https".
 
Since free web access to Delphi was only just announced, I don't yet know
all that is involved, nor do I know whether Delphi will offer lynx users
another way to sign up for free Delphi access. But, from what I understand,
you only need a cookie and https capable browser to sign up for free access;
once you are signed up, then the standard version of lynx will work for
accessing the A2 area.
 
(I hate to say it, but I think that what that means, for now at least, is
that you can easily sign up with Netscape or Explorer, and then once signed
up, can use lynx to access the forum area.)
 
In any case, since this is such a new development, it's going to take some
time to get everything sorted out and working well. But, I'm sure that
Syndicomm's A2 staff is working over-time trying to get Delphi's management
to make it easier for Apple II users to sign up. But, it might take some
time...
 
In the meanwhile, for those of you savvy enough, here's the URL that tells
you exactly what you have to do to patch lynx to he https capable:
 
Patches to enhance Lynx's functionality in particular environments =
http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/patches.html
 
Then, scroll down until you see the following:
 
   SSL/https
          Fote's April 1997 post on SSL and Lynx.
 
          The generic Lynx distribution does not contain SSL capability
          due to the US restrictions on the free distribution of
          cryptographic software. It is, however, trivial to add SSL
          capability to Lynx using a https proxy (defined in lynx.cfg).
          Similarly, SSL can be built into the Lynx binary as well.
          ftp://shadow.cabi.net/pub/Linux contains a Lynx 2.7 with SSL
          distribution. The proxy code is available from:
          ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/pub/crypto/SSLapps/SSLlynx
          Where the file eassl0.6.tgz contains the proxy itself, and
          edssl0.6.tgz contains the whole kaboodle (lynx, server,
          netscape security enhancements). Look in
          ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/crypto/linux/redhat/ for Linux
          binaries. ftp.replay.com is located in the Netherlands. The
          proxy uses SSLeay, which is available at
          ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSL (presumably the lynx
          distribution will soon appear here as well).
 
If you've just signed up for free web access to Delphi's A2 Forum, feel free
to add or correct or amplify on the above information.
 
Joe Kohn
http://www.crl.com/~joko