Why does FreeBSD insist on https?

[scrat]

On 04/03/15 22:17, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 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 ?
>

It is/was