Is there a way to force Wikipedia to HTTP?
I'm using Lynx, but it says that the certificate is expired. (Since my clock is correct, it's probably one of the intermediary or root certificates on my system that has reached its expiration date.)
Being needlessly forced into HTTPS is very annoying; I don't need HTTPS; how do I read Wikipedia over HTTP?
$ lynx -dump en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD
Looking up en.wikipedia.org
Making HTTP connection to en.wikipedia.org
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
HTTP/1.1 301 TLS Redirect
Data transfer complete
HTTP/1.1 301 TLS Redirect
Using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD
Looking up en.wikipedia.org
Making HTTPS connection to en.wikipedia.org
SSL callback:certificate has expired, preverify_ok=0, ssl_okay=0
Retrying connection without TLS.
Looking up en.wikipedia.org
Making HTTPS connection to en.wikipedia.org
Alert!: Unable to make secure connection to remote host.
lynx: Can't access startfile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD
Best Answer
As of June 2015, HTTPS is required to view the English Wikipedia, along with several other language versions of Wikipedia. According to Wikimedia, browsing over HTTP is no longer possible.
See Wikimedia's page on HTTPS for more information.