On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Toth Attila wrote: > > I work at EDS. Here, we have an https firewall that requires a > > login/password in order to open a connection to the internet. I want to > > set up a Debian box on our intranet that will be able to use console apps > > to access the internet (such as lynx, apt-get, lftp, etc...). Is there > For lynx it might be helpful to set the https-proxy address and port in > /etc/lynx.conf. I don't know if it works, because I never tried this > option. I also don't know how lynx hadles login/password related to the > https server, but from version 2.2 a workaround was said to be included. >
There's the lynx-ssl package in non-US for https support. I think it handles logins okay (I've used it against restricted .htaccess areas and it worked). -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
