Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: Dan Schmidt --===1367417055986599984== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c05d174565b21053980b67a --94eb2c05d174565b21053980b67a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Under plain DOS ? On what kind of machine ? Sry, didn't see your

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: Abe Mishler > On Aug 1, 2016, at 5:24 AM, dmccunney wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:41 AM, dos386 wrote: The bloat increase is just incredible :-D and sure RAM and CPU consumption grows too >> >>> One

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: dos386 > > The bloat increase is just incredible :-D and sure RAM and CPU > > consumption grows too > One man's bloat is another's feature. I've been running Mozilla code > since it was still an internal Netscape COOL ... at that time they refused to add support for MNG

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: dos386 > On 21 July Eric Auer said: > indeed I am trying to motivate people to use TLS/SSL This (and without HeartBleed's, MD5-certificates, crippled 40-bit keys,...) definitely makes sense when hunting around big bucks or sensitive personal data ... however obligatory

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: Ralf Quint On 8/1/2016 2:14 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:24:30 -0400, dmccunney > wrote: > >> More to the point, who *needed* it? >> >> MNG is PNG with support for animation. PNG was created to be a >> graphics format

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: Louis Santillan dos386, Could you please stop your excessive use of satirized names for companies or technologies? I know you have a point you want to make in there somewhere but you lose me when I have to parse and substitute your satirized names for these things

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: dmccunney On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:41 AM, dos386 wrote: >> > The bloat increase is just incredible :-D and sure RAM and CPU >> > consumption grows too > >> One man's bloat is another's feature. I've been running Mozilla code >> since it was

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: "TJ Edmister" On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:24:30 -0400, dmccunney wrote: > > More to the point, who *needed* it? > > MNG is PNG with support for animation. PNG was created to be a > graphics format unencumbered by patents. If GIF was patent

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: dos386 > > There must be SOME browsers for DOS which can handle it! > You talk as if you know for sure there is one. > Is this the case ? Links (well ... 2.13 works after minimal tests, but not tested on 80386 with < 16 MiO RAM) DOSLYNX (HTTPS works, but has some other

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: "Thomas Mueller" from Jose Antonio Senna: > On 26 july, Thomas Mueller said: > > ...(I) also have run Links with graphics > > in DOS, but that was years back. > Do you remember on what machine you did this ? > > I used Doug Kaufman's DOS port of Lynx for > >

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: dmccunney On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 1:00 PM, dos386 wrote: > >> Want to browse the web with support for current standards? Use a >> browser under Windows or a flavor of *nix. (I'm in Firefox > > FireFox 1 -> 4 MiO > FireFox 48 -> 50 MiO > > The

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: dos386 > Can I have the good old paper mail of FreeDOS lists? I meant: Can I have the good old paper mail __address__ of FreeDOS lists? -- ___

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

> Under plain DOS ? On what kind of machine ? Sry, didn't see your response. FreeDos, Pentium, but I'm guessing it may run on less. Get a nic card, an Ethernet to Wireless bridge, and you are good to go. And a lot of time, especially for Lynx. Links is slightly unstable, but easy to setup and

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

dos386, Could you please stop your excessive use of satirized names for companies or technologies? I know you have a point you want to make in there somewhere but you lose me when I have to parse and substitute your satirized names for these things (like Flu$h for Flash). On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

> On Aug 1, 2016, at 5:24 AM, dmccunney wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:41 AM, dos386 wrote: The bloat increase is just incredible :-D and sure RAM and CPU consumption grows too >> >>> One man's bloat is another's feature. I've been

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

On 8/1/2016 2:14 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:24:30 -0400, dmccunney > wrote: > >> More to the point, who *needed* it? >> >> MNG is PNG with support for animation. PNG was created to be a >> graphics format unencumbered by patents. > If GIF was

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:24:30 -0400, dmccunney wrote: > > More to the point, who *needed* it? > > MNG is PNG with support for animation. PNG was created to be a > graphics format unencumbered by patents. If GIF was patent encumbered, then it would seem that anyone

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:41 AM, dos386 wrote: >> > The bloat increase is just incredible :-D and sure RAM and CPU >> > consumption grows too > >> One man's bloat is another's feature. I've been running Mozilla code >> since it was still an internal Netscape > > COOL ... at that

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

> > The bloat increase is just incredible :-D and sure RAM and CPU > > consumption grows too > One man's bloat is another's feature. I've been running Mozilla code > since it was still an internal Netscape COOL ... at that time they refused to add support for MNG as it would add 10 KiO of bloat

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

from Jose Antonio Senna: > On 26 july, Thomas Mueller said: > > ...(I) also have run Links with graphics > > in DOS, but that was years back. > Do you remember on what machine you did this ? > > I used Doug Kaufman's DOS port of Lynx for > > online commerce but not banking, and not

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 1:00 PM, dos386 wrote: > >> Want to browse the web with support for current standards? Use a >> browser under Windows or a flavor of *nix. (I'm in Firefox > > FireFox 1 -> 4 MiO > FireFox 48 -> 50 MiO > > The bloat increase is just incredible :-D and

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

> Can I have the good old paper mail of FreeDOS lists? I meant: Can I have the good old paper mail __address__ of FreeDOS lists? -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

> > There must be SOME browsers for DOS which can handle it! > You talk as if you know for sure there is one. > Is this the case ? Links (well ... 2.13 works after minimal tests, but not tested on 80386 with < 16 MiO RAM) DOSLYNX (HTTPS works, but has some other flaws, hopefully needs less RAM

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

>You talk as if you know for sure there is one. >Is this the case ? I use two that do SSL/TLS quite adequately: Links2 http://links.twibright.com/download.php lynx also does ssl, but this version takes some work to get going:

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I use mostly Mozilla Firefox or Seamonkey. There are other graphical > browsers, such as Qupzilla, Midori and Netsurf, but I am not aware of any > attempt to port any of these browsers to DOS. I use Firefox as my

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

> On 21 July Eric Auer said: > > indeed I am trying to motivate people to use TLS/SSL ;-) > > There must be SOME browsers for DOS which can handle it! > You talk as if you know for sure there is one. > Is this the case ? > I did look at Mikulas' Links before Rugxulo > mentioned it in this