-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg, What you are dealing with is the flip side of authenticating yourself to the server. It is the way the server hopes to authenticate itself to you. The only text browser I know of that takes this flip side seriously is edbrowse. The way it works is that the server sends your browser some info encrypted with its own private key, and expects you to have the server's public key, or certificate, with which you can verify that the server you are connecting to is truly who you think it is. Most text browsers just blow this off, and move right along to the usual authentication phase, where your client sends some authenticating info to the server to establish a secure link. Edbrowse supports a certificate collection for a large number of hosts to which you might connect, and will actually implement the authentication mechanism so you will not be tricked into creating a secure channel to a fraudulent host. HTH ] Chuck On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:55:19PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all. > > Whenever I go to https:// URL with lynx the cat, I get the following harmless error: > > SSL error:Can't find common name in certificate-Continue? (y) > > . Pressing y or enter continues on, pressing n doesn't continue on. I > did some googling, and came across a message posted by Lorenzo from > this list to the debian users list: > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2004-04/1620.html > > . As you can see, the only response to that message was to read the > lynx docs. Besides that, my search didn't turn up anything else that > is helpful, and that is also in English. I have looked through the > table of contents of the lynx user's guide, but didn't see anything > there about https, or ssl. > > Lorenzo, if you're reading this, and found a solution, or anyone else > who knows what the solution is, what do I need to do in order to avoid > being asked this question over and over again, and to just have lynx > automatically load the page please? Thanks in advance for any help. > > Greg > > > -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (73% of Full) Get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEbDIUXnuiIOyDVQURAuAlAKCH57T/8zfmDx3pz0wJQB4AXk9m3wCgkUas F5Ijc1ioUaPZ7+ncvnI457c= =FApb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
