Sure, that would work.

Thanks,
Prakash

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Kamil Dudka <kdu...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 September 2012 22:02:59 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
>> Kamil Dudka <kdu...@redhat.com> writes:
>> > +   INIT_OPT_SMART_PREFIX("ddg", "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=elinks";),
>>
>> ELinks can be built without SSL/TLS support, in which case it
>> will pop up an error message when asked to open an https URL.
>> This may be why all the other prefixes use http rather than
>> https.  If you want to use https whenever possible, you can do
>> this:
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_SSL
>>       INIT_OPT_SMART_PREFIX("ddg", "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=elinks";),
>> #else
>>       INIT_OPT_SMART_PREFIX("ddg", "http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=elinks";),
>> #endif
>>
>> However, there is a risk that the http variant might get saved to
>> ~/.elinks/elinks.conf, in which case ELinks will keep using that
>> even if the user later installs an SSL/TLS-capable ELinks binary.
>> Such saving happens if the user edits the rewriting rule, or if
>> the user sets config.saving_style = 1 or 2.  I don't know whether
>> this risk is so bad you'd prefer using https unconditionally.
>
> Prakash, is it fine to use the non-SSL URLs (starting with http://)
> for elinks?  They appear working to me...
>
> Kamil



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