HTTPS Support In Browser Alternatives?

thoglette asks: "The ongoing security problems of IE/NS and the difficulty in controlling what the browser can/cannot do makes me want to move to something like Pine, however I need to use 'certificate' encryption (& https.) to access certain client sites. What support is there in other browsers for HTTPS?" How many bits are supported is important too. Encryption in IE and NS are up to 128-bit security whereas before 56-bit was the standard.

CURL Supports https

[stevey]

I've used CURL [curl.haxx.nu] a few times, for downloading from websites via https.

CURL is basically identical to wget, but with the advantage that it understands https.

For example it can be used by Gotmail [ozemail.com.au] to download mail from Hotmail - from the commandline.

Steve
Steve
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w3m & lynx

[Pegasus]

I used to use w3m. It has a compile option to use openssl libs so it can run https. Still very under development, but renders tables in textmode nicely.<br>A week or so ago openbsd team introduced https support in lynx browser. Not sure about ports to linux ... anyone?

Konqueror, Mozilla, w3m..

[Rob Kaper]

Konqueror [konqueror.org], the browser component of KDE [kde.org] does HTTPS if you have OpenSSL installed.

Technically it is not really Konqueror supporting https but rather the kio_https module of KDE's kio system. Every KDE application can do HTTPS.

By the way, Mozilla [mozilla.org] can do HTTPS as well with the right plugins. Both have Java, Javascript support, render fast and almost with full compliancy to the specs. Konqueror can even do Netscape plugins such as Flash, I'm not sure about Mozilla but I expect that it will since it is ment to replace Navigator sooner or later.

And if that's not enough, w3m [yamagata-u.ac.jp] (Lynx only better ;-) can do it as well!

https browser alternatives

[Dengue]

Lynx is available with https support. OpenBSD 2.7 ships with this.

Re:w3m & lynx

[Chris Pimlott]

I've been using lynx-ssl on my Debian box for months...

lynx

[Cassivs]

There are patches and instructions for patching lynx to support SSL here. [berkeley.edu] This patch uses the SSLeay library, and supports up to 168 bit encryption. There is another patch available here [moxienet.com] that does much the same thing, but uses OpenSSL instead of SSLeay. Once you have lynx compiled with SSL, you can go here [moxienet.com] to test the strength of the encryption that you can use.

iCab for MacOS

[Spax]

I'm not certain what level of HTTPS iCab [www.icab.de] supports, but as of the latest preview release (2.0) SSL and HTTPS are supported.

iCab uses Apple's URL Access SDK for that, which is included in MacOS 8.6 and higher.

Re:SSL is tough to find because....

[grahammm]

OpenSSL allows the use of DSA as well as RSA.