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DosView 1.3.1 (Announce)

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 22.11.2023, 03:56

> > Since virtually everything on the web no-a-days requires HTTPS access,
> > I would suggest dropping Arachne from the FreeDos distro.
>
> The web says there is a workaround where Arachne uses curl or wget to fetch
> HTTPS content, then displays it? With UPX, DosView is quite small, so there
> should be other ways to fit it on the CD? :-)

Nope... neither of the wget APMs work anymore for getting Arachne to
'fudge it's way around' grabbing an HTTPS page.
(and neither of them ever worked correctly for submitting forms via HTTPS)

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