Hi, I have a strange issue with Omniweb 2.7b3 on my NS3.3 install.
I can't load webpages unless I run Omniweb as root.
If I use my own user account, any url returns: "Cannot download URL...
http://blah blah"
I've tried untaring and using OW with my non-root account and still get the same error.
Thinking this is a security/permission issue but have no clue where to look.
Thought this might be a SSL problem as most websites force SSL so they don't get down ranked by Google.
Which is double standards as google allows not SSL on it's website.
Since you said you can load pages as root it seems to work.
What is the file permission of the directory where the web pages are being stored?
Can you load a local html file from your directory ok?!
So - are you attempting to use OW 2.7 just by itself? Are you connecting to just strictly http sites (of which there are still a fair number) - not to encrypted (i.e. https) sites?
I'm asking because OW has no SSL/TLS capability built into it at all (it was created back in the earliest days of the WWW). Later, Jurgen Mollenhof created a separate SSL/TLS "bundle" that added this onto OW but that is now outdated since it doesn't do TLS 1.2 or 1.3...you now have to configure a proxy for OW to use that will do the encryption/decryption for it (Cameron Kaiser's 'carl' program using his CryptoAncienne libs is available in the software archive on this site)...
For black hardware (even emulated) I would strongly recommend setting up carl to run on a modern machine that serves as a proxy rather than installing the Crypto Ancienne package on your NeXT box. Otherwise it's like simulating dial-up and makes all interactions incredibly slow.
init.rc-style instructions (on NetBSD):
https://dressupgeekout.com/classic-macos/classilla-tls/systemd-style instructions (using xinetd):
https://system7today.com/setup-crypto-ancienneIf you actually are having failures using outgoing unencrypted HTTP as a non-root account (for some mysterious, new reason no one else has yet encountered?) this might solved by setting up a proxy.
Thanks, I redid my network settings and the issue has gone away. I only occasionally use/plan to use OW for frogfind searches.
I'm trying to use my nextstation turbo for as much as I can. Its a labor of love really. I'm augmenting its capabilities with a little rhaspberry pi to do things like weechat (irc) and NFS shares. I was going to use it for some X apps but I'm finding very few modern X11 applications can deal with a 1bit display. CubX can simulate 256 colors of course but its unreadable mostly.
I'm also playing with curl to pass some mp3 streams to an mp3 player. I'm struggling with getting the random number generator working. I have the package from here but the README for setting it up to run in rc.local and whatever else needs to be done is missing.
Appreciate the answers and help!
Quote from: Rhetorica on February 10, 2025, 10:51:05 AMsystemd-style instructions (using xinetd): https://system7today.com/setup-crypto-ancienne
Just a heads up...
to /etc/services I had to add:
carl 8765/tcp # Proxy server on port 8765