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I just downloaded and installed Lynx for Windows and It does not support HTTPS to browse most of the websites today, especially Wikipedia.

I download it from Invisible Island, I guess it's the official site for the application

I've also read that some users modify configuration files and build it with SSL enabled in Linux.

The Windows version doesn't offer such support configuration during the setup.

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How can I enable SSL or add the HTTPS support to Lynx in Windows?

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At Invisible Island, you can download "Latest built with curses (not color-style)" and it mostly works. It doesn't seem to have access to the correct certificate info so I had to set FORCE_SSL_PROMPT:YES in the .cfg file so I'm not prompted with errors. (Well, it shows you errors but you don't have to do anything about them.)

Eric Klien
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How can I enable SSL or add the HTTPS support to Lynx in Windows?

Use the Cygwin version of lynx.

It has SSL already compiled in and can browse https pages.

$ lynx --version
Lynx Version 2.8.7rel.1 (05 Jul 2009)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2h, ncurses 6.0.20160423(wide)
Built on cygwin Apr 10 2013 12:32:36

$ lynx https://superuser.com/questions

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DavidPostill
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