Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 08:48:31PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
>> HTTPS connections using lynx work on my machine with this patch. Would
>> someone else like to see about this?
>
> Thanks for working on this!
>
> It still fails for me, but in a different way than before [0]:
>
> -----
> $ lynx https://famulari.name                   
>
> Looking up famulari.name
> Making HTTPS connection to famulari.name
> Retrying connection without TLS.
> Looking up famulari.name
> Making HTTPS connection to famulari.name
> Alert!: Unable to make secure connection to remote host.
>
> lynx: Can't access startfile https://famulari.name/
> -----
>
> I assume that I'm missing some environment variable on this Guix /
> Debian system. Any ideas?
>
> If it works for you, I'd say go for it.
>
>> From c18ab7b9c24f07ab86529d7f5f08f4dd21cea549 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>
>> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 20:38:39 -0400
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: lynx: Fix GnuTLS support.
>> 
>> * gnu/packages/lynx.scm (lynx)[arguments]: Pass "--with-gnutls" in
>
> I think this commit message is truncated.
>
> [0] Without this patch, lynx says:
> Alert!: This client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs.

I get the same problem here. Lynx does mention that GnuTLS support is
experimental. Your and Tobias' page work using OpenSSL instead. Try the
new patch attached.