Re: free email woes

[nickca@IFRICKINHATESPAMio.com (Nick C.)]

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 20:22:57 -0700, Donald C. Lee wrote:
>Hi,
>
>      I believe the newest version of Lynx is around 2.8 or so right?  At
>the moment, I'm using my community colleges Unix account to post this
>message and the version of Lynx they use (2.7.1) WILL NOT work with
>Hotmail.
>
>     It was working for a while until recently when Hotmail decided to
>"increase" their security during login.  SO when you login the page goes
>to a "https" instead of the standard http.  Lynx keeps telling me it does
>not support "https urls".  
>
>     So unless the newest version of Lynx is supporting https urls, it may
>not be compatible with Hotmail in the short term.  Perhaps in a future
>version!  :)

*delurk*

Try this URL: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffwong/lynxstuff/SSL/index.html

It's a step-by-step guide for building SSL support (and thus https url
support) into Lynx. Unfortunately, you need to be able to build your own
copy of Lynx and the SSLeay library, and I doubt that's possible on a shell
account. Maybe you could pass it along to the sysadmin?

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