From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 19 00:55:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1575116A4DF for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:55:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F0B43D45 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:55:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56BBD90D76 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:55:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:55:10 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: o+VzHo1TblCe+Z6ncZqbaGyuuL4ix0Fmivje9IdIAc/W 1153270501 Received: from [192.168.1.253] (unknown [205.246.14.237]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9142650A2 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:54:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44BD82D4.1000802@fastmail.fm> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:54:44 -0500 From: Patrick Bowen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <44BADEC8.5030807@fastmail.fm> <86ejwkrh83.fsf@student.uni-magdeburg.de> <44BD7DD5.9030406@fastmail.fm> <20060719004503.GB96589@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060719004503.GB96589@funkthat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Firefox on -current dumps core. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:55:10 -0000 John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Patrick Bowen wrote this message on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 19:33 -0500: > >> Here's my situation. I drive a truck, and the truck stops have wireless, >> but no wired, and there's a secure login. So I have to have a working >> browser to get on the web to do updates/upgrades. >> > > why not get lynx or w3m (I know one if not both support https) compiled > staticly, and then you don't have to worry about the gui browser issue? > > I tried lynx from the RELEASE cdrom, and it didn't support https. At least not that version. Links does however. I'll look at w3m, also. How do I go about statically compiling the non-gui browser? Just "make" with a knob turned on or what? Thanks, Patrick