How to tell `links` to ignore expired SSL certificate and proceed?

Question

I'm using the links browser and trying to connect to an HTTPS site. I then get:

Verification failure: certificate has expired

this is "fine" (i.e. was decided to be tolerated) for this internal-only service, and other browsers allow to dismiss the error and try again.

How can I achieve the same in links and ignore the condition, that is: create an exception about the validity of this certificate.

[Links SSL Error](http://superuser.com/q/839780) – DavidPostill Feb 23 '16 at 12:52 — DavidPostill, Feb 23 '16 at 12:52

mario ruiz · Answer 1 · 2016-02-27T19:34:41.817

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I've used this version for testing:

Just tried with the argument :

links.exe https://expired.badssl.com/ -ssl.certificates 0

And the alert is not coming, so Is a kind of creating an exception.

edited Feb 27 '16 at 19:34

answered Feb 25 '16 at 23:56

mario ruiz

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thanks for the answer, but that "RTFM" isn't very kind. I hope you realize that there are various versions of `links` floating around. I can hardly post the complete `man` page here, but links: [`links2(1)`](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/links2.1.html) and [`links(1)`](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/links.1.html) and [`links2(1)` for Debian](http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=links&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+8+jessie&format=html&locale=en). Please be so kind *where* in those `man` pages I did not read thoroughly enough. – 0xC0000022L Feb 26 '16 at 12:23
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My `links2` doesn't have this option (Ubuntu 14.04) – blee Feb 29 '16 at 22:43

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