Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 21:17:42 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD insist on https? Message-ID: <551F49C6.3080107@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <551F43B7.2020905@columbus.rr.com> References: <CAA3ZYrAwXOp_5vfUPsEkF82UPaAqNwnTm7dw1ogf-C-X%2Bj730g@mail.gmail.com> <20150403183957.GA1379@WorkBox.Home> <551F24FF.9020101@columbus.rr.com> <551F2E2D.6090106@bluerosetech.com> <551F43B7.2020905@columbus.rr.com>
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On 04/03/15 20:51, scrat wrote: > > > On 04/03/15 20:19, Mel Pilgrim wrote: >> On 2015-04-03 16:40, scrat wrote: >>> On 04/03/15 14:39, Bigby James wrote: >>>> On a lark, I went ahead and installed Firefox, Chromium, Dillo, >>>> VimB, Luakit, >>>> UZBL, surf, SeaMonkey, Conkeror, w3m and lynx. Every one of them is >>>> able to >>>> access https://www.freebsd.org without any problem, with the >>>> exceptions of UZBL >>>> and lynx, which each complain about SSL/TLS issues (which can in >>>> turn be >>>> circumvented in their respective configurations). >>> >>> NCSA Mosaic? >> >> Considering NCSA Mosaic wouldn't even work on a modern website, I >> think we can safely remove it from the test cases. ;) >> > > > But I still have it installed on my RedHat 5.2 ( do you want a copy? ) > from many years ago ( middle 1990's ), i386 with several MBs of > ram......all 16 of them. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I originally ran Mosaic on an old SGI IRIS, also mid '90's, using an external USR PPP modem hooked to the serial port, 1st through a breakout box, then w/ a custom made cable, true RS232 .... So there ;-) .... I thought Mosaic is what became Netscape mozilla/firefox, no ? -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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