RE: ssl and lynx_w32?

Personally, I have never encountered a site that required SSL that did also
require JavaScript.  Seems to me that Lynx users are still being
unnecessarily discriminated against.

> One other point to bear in mind is that some 
> web sites insist on specific browsers being used
> for SSL.  Part of the reasoning for this is that
> they want someone to blame if there is a security
> breach.  Some Lynx users forge the User Agent to
> get into those site, but, in my view, anyone doing
> so would be at risk of being accused of fraud (the
> sites tend to be financial organisations).
> 
> (There is a tradeoff here between the fact that there
> is a company with a reputation to protect behind
> commercial browsers and the open source nature of
> things like Lynx allowing independent verification.
> In these plug and play days, it would not be difficult
> for someone to distribute a compromised binary of an
> open source program.)