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  • From: Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Links and HTTP authentication
  • Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 15:01:39 +0000

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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