Infodrom Oldenburg

— lynx —

18.6.2006: Accepted Content-Types corrected	lynx	2.8.5
When lynx requests a web page it requests text/html and text/* at the same priority. Hence, the webserver gets to decide which document to deliver if MultiViews (e.g. for content negotiation) is turned on. This resulted in the delivery of ICS (text/calendar) files instead of plain web pages (text/html) for Debian events pages.
Download: Patch, diff, dsc, changes, Debian package, build log. Patch for 2.8.7dev.9.

3.12.2006: lynx doesn't accept wildcard certificates	lynx	2.8.5
According to RFC 2818 Section 3.1 certificates may contain the wildcard character * which is considered to match any single domain name component or component fragment. E.g., .a.com matches foo.a.com but not bar.foo.a.com. f.com matches foo.com but not bar.com.
Download: Patch, Debian diff, dsc, changes, i386 package, build log.

4.11.2007: Improved support for SSL certs	lynx	2.8.7dev.7
I was looking for a way to tell Lynx to accept the certificates that the package ca-certificates in Debian collects and maintains. I noticed that apparently Lynx only accepts the mention of a file containing all valid certificates via the environment variable SSL_CERT_FILE but did not support a configuration option for this. I would like to use a system wide setting since it would integrate lynx well in the Debian CA architecture. This patch adds a configuration option SSL_CERT_FILE to /etc/lynx.cfg.
Download: Patch, changelog, dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz, i386.deb, i386.log.

4.11.2007: Improved support for SSL certs

lynx

2.8.7dev.7

I was looking for a way to tell Lynx to accept the certificates that the package ca-certificates in Debian collects and maintains.

I noticed that apparently Lynx only accepts the mention of a file containing all valid certificates via the environment variable SSL_CERT_FILE but did not support a configuration option for this.

I would like to use a system wide setting since it would integrate lynx well in the Debian CA architecture. This patch adds a configuration option SSL_CERT_FILE to /etc/lynx.cfg.

Download: Patch,
changelog, dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz, i386.deb, i386.log.

4.11.2007: Support for X.509 and GnuTLS	lynx	2.8.7dev.7
I noticed that the changelog of the development version 2.8.7dev.5 claims to add support to the X.509 extension subjectAltName. However, upon reading the source code it turned out that this feature is only available when lynx is using OpenSSL but not when it uses GnuTLS. Therefore I worked on support for subjectAltName for GnuTLS in Lynx on my own.
Download: Patch, changelog, dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz, i386.deb, i386.log.

4.11.2007: Support for X.509 and GnuTLS

lynx

2.8.7dev.7

I noticed that the changelog of the development version 2.8.7dev.5 claims to add support to the X.509 extension subjectAltName. However, upon reading the source code it turned out that this feature is only available when lynx is using OpenSSL but not when it uses GnuTLS.

Therefore I worked on support for subjectAltName for GnuTLS in Lynx on my own.

Download: Patch,
changelog, dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz, i386.deb, i386.log.

11.7.2008: Accept Google /search cookie	lynx	2.8.7dev.9
Google nowardays provides cookies not only with path=/ but also with path=/search which are presented for /search (contrary to /search/), thus Lynx considers them as invalid. This kludge makes Lynx accept exactly this one cookie.
Download: Patch diff.gz dsc.

4.10.2008: Reduce delay	lynx	2.8.7dev10
When visiting the same form again in lynx it emits a warning that visiting the same page now will remove the content from all input fields, wait a little bit so one can read it, then clear the form and display the form. If you are working with the same form several times, this is slightly annoying... This patch simply removes this delay.
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