0.2.4 works in right way and 0.2.3 doesn't worked in right way.
In 0.2.3, w3m doesn't check SSL certificate, so it's bad implementation
of https (RFC violation).
w3m 0.2.4 checks SSL certificate correctly
as RFC, so that you need CA certificates installed on your system
to verify SSL certificate. Otherwise, you can't check SSL certificate
and you can't believe its https connection.
If you really want to use https, you should install CA certificates' files
and set ssl_ca_file or ssl_ca_path.
On Debian/sid, apt-get install ca-certificates
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I get an error "Certificate not valid" or something like that when I try connect to SSL servers? works fine with v0.2.3.2
0.2.4 works in right way and 0.2.3 doesn't worked in right way.
In 0.2.3, w3m doesn't check SSL certificate, so it's bad implementation
of https (RFC violation).
w3m 0.2.4 checks SSL certificate correctly
as RFC, so that you need CA certificates installed on your system
to verify SSL certificate. Otherwise, you can't check SSL certificate
and you can't believe its https connection.
If you really want to use https, you should install CA certificates' files
and set ssl_ca_file or ssl_ca_path.
On Debian/sid, apt-get install ca-certificates