I have Debain 3.0 r2 installed
When i try to login to my account on either mail.yahoo.com
or gmail.google.com i get a message saying
"The protocol Https is not supported"
Any ideas?
thanks

What web browser are you using and what version?

One more thing I strongly suggest you update your Debian system to sarge or sid. Woody is stable but all the pkgs are old. woody is really great for a server but kinda lame for a desktop workstation. it's easy enough to update so let us know if you are interested in updating I'll help you out.

Sarge is the testing release and Sid stands for "Stays In Development" it's the unstable release. I run sid ,it has the most current pkgs and it sometimes breaks little things but it's easy enogh to fix and it usually just needs and apt-get update and apt-get upgrade a couple of days later to work it out. I've never been left with an unusable system using sid.

some more info on releases.
http://www.debian.org/releases/

pkgs by release search
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

Well my experience with Debian is limited ....but if you say
that Sid is a good and stable release i'm ready to go for it
but i'll surely need some help

It's simple just edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace everything with the unstable sources.. Here is mine.


as root

type apt-get update to update the source list.

then just type apt-get dist-upgrade

this will replace and upgrade the distro from woody to sid. This may take some time depending speed of your internet connection.

if you get asked any questions take the defaults.

One more thing I almost forgot. If you have any programs that you compiled by hand will be replaced by apt-get dist-upgrade.

Originally posted by kobedf:

Are you using Mozilla? Then you need to install the personal security manager with apt-get install mozilla-psm

If you are running KDE, try running apt-get install kdebase-crypto kdelibs3-crypto and see if that works to allow https support.