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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 12:20:12PM -0400, keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> 
> Yup.  I looked at the web page for Links and it apparantly does not have
> HTTP Authentication Support.  This has nothing whatsoever to do with forms.
> It certainly won't log in to Backtalk, nor to umpteen billion other web
> sites that use HTTP Authentication.  HTTP Authentication isn't very hard to
> implement, and is very widely used.  I have a hard time taking a browser 
> that
> doesn't support it very seriously.

If you are talking about https support in links, maybe you want to know
this: links need to be linked to ssl and the /dev/random or /dev/urandom
needs to be present.

> Backtalk makes fairly minimal demands on the browser.  I think it would work
> on the better browsers available in 1993 (NCSA Mosaic, mostly) when the
> world wide web was in its infancy.  HTTP authentication was part of the
> original design of the HTTP protocol and has been a standard for as long
> as the web has existed.  Links falls substantially short of this minimum.
> Support for so sad a piece of junk is just too low on my priority list to
> ever happen.

I can use links-0.98 to access yahoo mail, if this is any useful
information.