Elinks: SSL Error

Question

My problem is simple, only look the screenshot:

**For tired eyes:

-bash-4.1$ cat /etc/*release
LSB_VERSION=base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$ elinks -version
ELinks 0.12pre5
Built on Jan  4 2013 07:04:04

Features:
Standard, IPv6, gzip, bzip2, UTF-8, Periodic Saving, Viewer (Search
History, Timer, Marks), Cascading Style Sheets, Protocol
(Authentication, BitTorrent, File, FTP, HTTP, URI rewrite, User
protocols), SSL (OpenSSL), MIME (Option system, Mailcap, Mimetypes
files), LED indicators, Bookmarks, Cookies, Form History, Global
History, Goto URL History
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$ elinks -dump -eval 'set connection.ssl.cert_verify = 1' https://10.113.1.104:443/sgc/registro2.asp
ELinks: SSL error
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$ elinks -dump -eval 'set connection.ssl.cert_verify = 0' https://10.113.1.104:443/sgc/registro2.asp
ELinks: SSL error
-bash-4.1$

I don't understand why elinks still shows the error SSL. Any idea?

Solution

You may configure elinks to ignore SSL verification: edit elinks.conf and change the connection.ssl.cert_verify setting to 0, then restart elinks.

set connection.ssl.cert_verify = 0

Comments

[jrich523]

i know it should probably be obvious, but the location of that file would be helpful to us noobs

[UTCWebDev]

jrich, the location is usually /etc/elinks.conf on RHEL Linux + downstream versions.

[Arkku]

FWIW, the file is ~/.elinks/elinks.conf (and doesn't exist by default) and the syntax is set connection.ssl.cert_verify = 0 – this is very poorly documented.