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On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
>
> For those of you that need ssl and javascript,
> in the browser, try this package:
> -----------------------------------------------
> http://www.basiclinux.com.ru/add-ons/links2.tgz
> -----------------------------------------------
> Install with pkg.  It runs on BL3 without
> additional libraries.

I had a bad (10 minute) wget download which will not uncompress to the 
3.7MB file it supposedly contains.  (I will try again with links).  Which 
version of links2 is this - pre28?  The 28 I compiled with ssl and 
javascript (minimal) for glibc is 3.8MB and has several graphical library 
dependencies.

Is this compiled against libc5, and usable under X like the previous 
version you compiled (pre15?).

If so, congratulations on getting the ssl working under libc5 (assuming it 
really works which I cannot test yet).

This will be a big help to BL3 if it works at all SSL sites (which plain 
links does not seem to do, just at some of them).

Since you have openssl, perhaps you can also compile elinks for BL3, using 
libc5 or dietlibc, with ssl and even javascript.

Now that links2 does SSL, I can't think of anything lynx does better than 
links2, other than let you type in a URL without the www and com.  Is 
there some way to use links2 -g as a downloader for links2 non-graphical? 
(If you hit a page where you need embedded graphics?).  I suppose you 
could just use it with images turned off, then turn them on again.


Thanks for all your efforts,
Sindi

> Cheers,
> Steven