Its a fine thing then that lynx is updated regularly for various systems
then.
I admit, speaking personally, that I have no issues using https with lynx
at all.
And given the AI errors of late, again speaking personally, I would not
trust it to find the direction of a one way street lol.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2026, David Woolley wrote:
On 11/02/2026 04:24, Karen Lewellen wrote:
For the record David, this change from Google has zero to do with sight
safety.
I didn't introduce site safety in the context of Google's search engine. The
only reason I mentioned Google is that its AI gave me an easy way of getting
to relevant information in a compact form, to show what the OP should have
been able to find with a bit of research effort.
The https everywhere initiative doesn't discriminate against Lynx, but rather
against old systems. Once you make security important, you have to
continually update software as vulnerabilities are discovered, and that means
you can't use 18 year old software and expect it to be secure.
Google wasn't listed as a site that was causing an issue, and the failure
reported was one that would mean that the web site would not have been able
to identify the browser, as that would require it to have seen the plain
text.
