Re: [Lynx-dev] Unexpected network read error when accessing https on Ubuntu 16.04.

[Luke at Shellworld Support]

Solved by reinstalling the previously failing version of 2.9.0 from 
backports, along with some development headers (openssl-dev, 
libncurses-dev) needed for the compile I was doing.

It almost surely means that the lack of openssl-dev was the culprit here, 
but I find that more than a bit baffling.

Lynx Version 2.9.0dev.5 (27 Feb 2020)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.6.13, ncurses 6.2.20200212(wide)
Built on linux-gnu.

Luke


> On Fri, 14 Jan 2022, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> 
> > Do you build lynx yourself or do you use/backport packages?
> 
> I have been pulling pre-built X64 binaries from Buster, bionic, etc. repo 
> mirrors. I'm trying now to build a source version of 2.8.9 stable on the 
> machine in question.
> 
> > I’d have guessed for the TLS version to be an issue, but…
> 
> That was my first thought as well, although other TLS applications seem to 
> be working fine (knock on wood), and older versions of lynx (2.8.9.dev9) 
> work fine with SSL.
> 
> > somewhat a sense that building lynx with OpenSSL might be better
> > overall. Maybe try that instead, if you can get a version that
> > supports at least TLSv1.2?
> 
> I'll try.
> 
> > If needed, I can probably do the Debian Developer thing and backport
> > the current lynx package from Debian unstable to 16.04 using its
> > libraries “as shipped”… but, I see now, that’s also just 2.9.0dev.10
> > so it might not suffice?
> 
> Thank you. I'll try to build and see what I get, and go from there. I have 
> no objection to the 2.9 series, it just has the problem of failing as 
> described herein. The last version of 2.9 I tried was from backports I 
> believe.
> 
> Luke