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

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 02:25:06PM -0400, keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2003 neoszewee AT gmx.net wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 12:20:12PM -0400, keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> 
> The author of the bbs web interface wrote this, not me.
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Links 2.1.9 was compiled with ssl.  Can you explain more about
> /dev/random and /dev/urandom?  I never heard of them.  

I do not exactly how it works. Some programs use it to generate a random
number. Last time I use links to access yahoo and I cannot access it.
However, with the presence of these files, I can.

> 
> 
> > I can use links-0.98 to access yahoo mail, if this is any useful
> > information.
> 
> Yahoo mail has not been a problem for me with any browser.
> Does it work with Arachne?

Maybe. But Arachne does not do https.

> The bank site is the real challenge.
> 
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