Why does FreeBSD insist on https?

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sat Apr 4 02:11:36 UTC 2015


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.
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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 ?

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