Martin Schulze wrote: > > According to RFC 2818 Section 3.1 certificates may contain the wildcard > > character * which is considered to match any single domain name component > > or component fragment. E.g., *.a.com matches foo.a.com but not > > bar.foo.a.com. f*.com matches foo.com but not bar.com. > > > > Lynx in its current implementation in Debian sid does not understand this. > > > > Since the misdetection of SSL certificates is of severity important I > > assume that this is as well as it renders valid certificates sort of > > invalid. > > Attached is a patch to fix this.
Here's a package that incorporates this and two other patches for those who want to use fixed packages: http://people.debian.org/~joey/NMU/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2.2.2.diff.gz http://people.debian.org/~joey/NMU/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2.2.2.dsc http://people.debian.org/~joey/NMU/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2.2.2_i386.changes http://people.debian.org/~joey/NMU/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2.2.2_i386.deb http://people.debian.org/~joey/NMU/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2.2.2_i386.log Regards, Joey -- Have you ever noticed that "General Public Licence" contains the word "Pub"? Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
