[Wylug-discuss] Text-based Web Browser with SSL Authentication and Javascript

[John Hodrien]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Dave Fisher wrote:

> It's often difficult to access the wonderful world of "Web (Me) 2.0", or
> even simple SSL-based sites, in a text browser
>
> I've been trying out eLinks, because it claims Javascript, CSS and SSL
> support.
>
> Unfortunately, eLinks has been unable to access any of the
> sites/applications I need to use.

Odd.

> In one case, it delivered a login prompt for one of my own SSL sites,
> but failed to authenticate ... I know for certain that I got the
> username/password combination correct, so I'm guessing that it has
> problems with Digest authentication or silently rejects my hand-rolled
> certificate.

I regularly use links for this sort of thing without issue.

> In the case of Google Mail, it apparently fails to recognise an input
> context correctly, because when I type the first letter of my username
> (d) in the login form, eLinks pops up a download dialogue box ('d' is
> the default binding for the 'download' command').

Are you sure you've pressed return to put it into input mode for the input
field?

jh

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