Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx: Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Ignac Vucko wrote:
>
> > *PROBLEM:*
> > lynx -source https://www.mynortonaccount.com/amsweb/default.do
> >
> > Looking up www.mynortonaccount.com
> > Making HTTPS connection to www.mynortonaccount.com
> > Verified connection to www.mynortonaccount.com 
> > (cert=www.mynortonaccount.com)
> > Certificate issued by: C=, ST=, L=, O=VeriSign Trust Network, OU=VeriSign, 
> > Inc., CN=/Email=
> > Secure 256-bit TLS1.0 (RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1) HTTP connection
> > Sending HTTP request.
> > HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
> > Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
> > Can't Access `https://www.mynortonaccount.com/amsweb/default.do'
> > Alert!: Unable to access document.
> >
> > lynx: Can't access startfile
> > *
> > DESCRIPTION:*
> > - Ubuntu 9.10 (2.6.31-21-server)
>
> I see (it works with OpenSSL, but not GNUTLS).  I'll look and see if I can
> isolate the problem to something that I can fix in lynx.
>
> thanks
>
> > - Lynx Version 2.8.7pre.6 (23 Jun 2009)
> >  libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, ncurses 5.7.20090803(wide)
> >  Built on linux-gnu Jun 25 2009 07:27:29
> > - FORCE_SSL_PROMPT:YES is being used in /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg to ignore 
> > SSL cert issues
> > - Setting -useragent="firefox user agent" does not resolve the issue
> > - wget and curl -sk and Firefox work fine
> >
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?

I got it to accept the connection by disabling the user-agent entirely.

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