[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#797059: Info received (lynx cannot connect to https://contributors.debian.org)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 08:30:56AM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote:
> > In a quick test, I do not see any problems introduced by the
> > patch, and for "recent" gnutls, it is able to connect to 
> > https://contributors.debian.org but it does not address openssl and
> > less-than-bleeding-edge gnutls(*). So I think it will work (for me)
> > as a starting point, and for Debian as an interim patch.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> well yes, i must admit my gnutls/SSL programming knowledge is/was next
> to nothing, so i am sure my patch might be improved. This was really
> intended as a fix for the recent version, nothing more. And as lynx in
> Debian is build against GNUTLS: If we would (at least for Debian)
> apply the patch for the version currently in sid, at least some people
> may benefit from this.

I think we're agreeing here.
 
> > 
> > At the moment I'm working off an (older) backlog for vile,
> > thinking to work on lynx's backlog next.
> > 
> > (*) in an earlier check, I found that "older" w3m and links
> > worked, using openssl but elinks did not.  So I have to do some
> > investigation.
> > 
> 
> I will try to come up with support for rehandshake support for openssl
> as well (if actually needed, maybe openssl does handle this completely
> different).

thanks (I've a couple days more on vile, but am aware there are several
fixes suggested for lynx -- as well as unresolved issues -- all take time).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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