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Re: ssl isues are Eating me alive.



	Hi.

On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:14:29 +0000 (UTC)
davidson@freevolt.org wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Apr 2017, Reco wrote:
> 
> > 	Hi.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 01:01:24PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:54:32AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> >>> This started out a year or so ago with the occasional site in
> >>> which lynx would report that it was unable to establish a TLS
> >>> connection with this or that site. [...]
> >>
> >> It's not just lynx.  It's EVERY single terminal-based browser, and
> >> as you noticed, it gets worse every day.
> >>
> >> Apparently all of the terminal-based browsers in wheezy and jessie are
> >> linked with libgnutls instead of libopenssl, and libgnutls (at least as
> >> provided by jessie) is completely incapable of forming an SSL connection
> >> with half of the Web.
> >
> > There's one notable exception to this in jessie and it's called w3m.
> >
> > $ ldd /usr/bin/w3m | grep ssl
> >        libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0
> 
> In wheezy (at least) I've noticed that curl can also cope, when lynx
> (and wget) cannot.

AFAIK jessie is the last Debian release that provides curl linked with
openssl.

Reco


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