Re: More thoughts on hyperlinks in tn5250 and mozilla integration

[Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

james rich wrote:

> I just read Martin Rowe's email on hyperlinks in tn5250.  He suggests
> having tn5250 launch a web browser when a link is clicked on.  That's
> fine, but it reminded me of some ideas I've been kicking around that would
> really help our users and really move open software forward.
>
> Why just launch a browser?  Why not make the browser and tn5250 *the
> same*.  A while back someone integrated the finger protocol into mozilla
> (mozilla is netscape's new browser - open source - I hope everyone here
> knows that).  Why couldn't the 5250 protocol be integrated as well?  It
> seems a simple thing to do by linking mozilla with lib5250.  Below I'll
> quote a message on this topic a wrote a while ago to explain my ideas:

The problem is that the new browser crashes constantly.  The version of tn5250
I'm using does not crash (I shouldn't have said that!)

It's an interesting idea, though.  Do you suppose you would then be able to use
the browser's SSL capabilites to encrypt a tn5250 session?

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