From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 4 11:27:45 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2CF24609 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2015 11:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0199BCA for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2015 11:27:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [75.187.32.8] ([75.187.32.8:41069] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-oedge02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id E6/67-18018-D6ACF155; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:26:37 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.53] (helo=baho-utot.bildanet.com) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YeMDk-00018V-NL for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 07:26:36 -0400 Message-ID: <551FCA6C.2000404@columbus.rr.com> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 07:26:36 -0400 From: scrat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD insist on https? References: <20150403183957.GA1379@WorkBox.Home> <551F24FF.9020101@columbus.rr.com> <551F2E2D.6090106@bluerosetech.com> <551F43B7.2020905@columbus.rr.com> <20150403190709.Horde.FPdgiP1gQPdvOyg1X285qQ2@mail.parts-unknown.org> In-Reply-To: <20150403190709.Horde.FPdgiP1gQPdvOyg1X285qQ2@mail.parts-unknown.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.130:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:27:45 -0000 On 04/03/15 22:07, David Benfell wrote: > Quoting scrat : > >> 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. > > This thread *is* satire, isn't it? > Somewhat, although I still have that i386