[SOLVED] Lynx Browser: Can't access https sites.

Nero86 · 2015-04-09 18:33:21

Hello, an arch newbie here. I hope I posted in the right section.

I'm having a little bit of trouble using the text-based browser "lynx". I made sure to precompile lynx with ssl options before make and installing. Yet, when I try to access a https site, it throws the message:

"Alert!: This client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs.

lynx: Can't access startfile https://www.archlinux.org/"

Some extra information:

"lynx -version
Lynx Version 2.8.8rel.2 (09 Mar 2014)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2a, s-lang 2.3.0
Built on linux-gnu Apr 7 2015 14:56:04

Copyrights held by the Lynx Developers Group,
the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License (Version 2).
See http://lynx.isc.org/ and the online help for more information.

See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL."

"lynx -show_cfg
### Lynx 2.8.8rel.2, at Thu Apr 9 14:17:37 2015
STARTFILE:http://lynx.isc.org/
HELPFILE:http://lynx.isc.org/release/breakout/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html
DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE:http://scout.wisc.edu/
MINIMAL_COMMENTS:TRUE
COLOR:6:brightred:black"

"uname -a
Linux 3.19.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 26 15:12:16 CET 2015 i686 GNU/Linux"

Not sure what I'm missing. My first guess is to uninstall it, and remake it with different .configure options. I'm hesitant though, because it seems like it is already set up to handle https sites correctly. I've been trying to make this work for a couple days.

Thanks in advance for your time, I appreciate any advice.

Last edited by Nero86 (2015-04-10 01:58:15)

karol · 2015-04-09 19:03:53

Post the PKGBUILD you're using.

Edit: The stock lynx package works for me on my 32-bit Arch with [testing] repos enabled. (Using [testing] may be of no consequence here.)

Last edited by karol (2015-04-09 19:05:50)

Nero86 · 2015-04-10 01:56:40

I uninstalled, deleted my build directory, redownloaded the current stable release tarball from the lynx site, compiled , and make installed.

It worked. Not sure why it worked, all I did was download a different tar, but it called for a ~happy dance~.

Thank you karol for taking the time to help.

Trilby · 2015-04-10 02:16:06

Nero86 wrote:

... compiled , and make installed.

This is a bad idea. Now you have untracked files in your root directory and there is a fair chance this could lead to a file conflict when running pacman in the future. You should make a PKGBUILD for anything you want to build yourself.

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#1 2015-04-09 18:33:21

[SOLVED] Lynx Browser: Can't access https sites.

#2 2015-04-09 19:03:53

Re: [SOLVED] Lynx Browser: Can't access https sites.

#3 2015-04-10 01:56:40

Re: [SOLVED] Lynx Browser: Can't access https sites.

#4 2015-04-10 02:16:06

Re: [SOLVED] Lynx Browser: Can't access https sites.

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