Re: NetSurf web sites

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 08:38:52PM +0100, cj wrote:
> In article <921e311a57.DaveMeUK@my.inbox.com>,
> David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
> > Also I notice that the !Fetch_NS app no longer works, complaining of
> > an incorrectly formatted filename at line 24. Probably not your
> > problem, but I struggle to see how it works and thus how the error
> > occurs. Help would be appreciated!
>
> You have to have a recent version of wget that understands https and
> change the command options when using wget. There was a recent thread
> in comp.sys.acorn.apps where this arose. I suggested using the option
>
> --no-check-certificate
>
> which works around the certificate check.

Please note that this defeats the whole point of us switching to HTTPS
in the first place. A better solution would be to provide wget and
whatnot with the certificates to check. NetSurf itself ships a set of
certificates, but I'm not sure if the format is compatible. Check with
who ported wget.

B.