Re: [OT] can anyone offer Lisp job?

rem642b@xxxxxxxxx (Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) writes:

> > From: Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann@xxxxxx>
> > What's wrong with https, that is, http over SSL?
>
> Whenever I click on such a link, I get two (2) separate alerts about
> lynx unable to get SSL certificate, which clearly shows it's not doing
> what it should to establish a secure connection.

Is your lynx built with SSL support?


> Everything I transmit to my Unix shell account is plain-text over VT100
> link. Regardless of whether it's encrypted or not from the shell
> machine to the server, it's plain text all the way from my home
> computer through the dialup port and TELNET link to shell machine and
> through standard input to Lynx, which means anybody with admin
> priviledges on the shell machine can view what I'm transmitting and
> what I'm receiving. I have no choice but to pass Yahoo! Mail passwords
> and the like over this insecure dialup, but there's no way you can
> convince me it's reasonble to pass banking account numbers and PINs
> etc. that way!!

Then don't use telnet - use ssh instead. If the shell account server
doesn't support ssh, find a new provider as anyone still only
providing telnet on an internet connected system allowing shell
login has no clue what they are doing.

Note also that vt100 has nothing to do with your link - its a terminal
communication protocol which just controls low level terminal control,
such as cursor positioning etc.

If you can telnet to a remote system, you can also just access the web
directly from your home machine - there is no need to first telnet to
the shell account and then run lynx. If yu cannot get lynx to work
with SSL, try w3m built with SSL support - it is a fast reliable text
editor with support for frames etc.
--
Tim Cross
The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is
to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you
really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!
.

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