On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:44:46PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:28:35PM +0100, Jan Danielsson wrote:
> > Denis Lagno wrote:
> > >>    A few weeks ago I saw a discussion where someone suggested that Lynx
> > >> should be added to the base system. FWIW, I'm connected to an university
> > >> network, which requires a http (actually https) based login before I
> > >> gain access to the Internet.
> > 
> >    Anyway, the point wasn't that anyone should include lynx in the base
> > system because of my reason alone, but rather I wanted to add it to the
> > previous discussion.
> 
> Can you provide a pointer to this previous discussion?  
> 
> Btw, you can download files with ftp(1) (both from ftp:// and http://) if
> you know the URL.  

But not https://, which is what he needed.

Could be possible to script with openssl's s_client.

Ben