[SOLVED] Lynx Browser: Can't access https sites.

Hello, an arch newbie here. I hope I posted in the right section.
I'm having a little bit of trouble using the text-based browser "lynx". I made sure to precompile lynx with ssl options before make and installing. Yet, when I try to access a https site, it throws the message:
"Alert!: This client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs.
lynx: Can't access startfile https://www.archlinux.org/"
Some extra information:
"lynx -version
Lynx Version 2.8.8rel.2 (09 Mar 2014)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2a, s-lang 2.3.0
Built on linux-gnu Apr 7 2015 14:56:04
Copyrights held by the Lynx Developers Group,
the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License (Version 2).
See http://lynx.isc.org/ and the online help for more information.
See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL."
"lynx -show_cfg
### Lynx 2.8.8rel.2, at Thu Apr 9 14:17:37 2015
STARTFILE:http://lynx.isc.org/
HELPFILE:http://lynx.isc.org/release/breakout/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html
DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE:http://scout.wisc.edu/
MINIMAL_COMMENTS:TRUE
COLOR:6:brightred:black"
"uname -a
Linux 3.19.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 26 15:12:16 CET 2015 i686 GNU/Linux"
Not sure what I'm missing. My first guess is to uninstall it, and remake it with different .configure options. I'm hesitant though, because it seems like it is already set up to handle https sites correctly. I've been trying to make this work for a couple days.
Thanks in advance for your time, I appreciate any advice.
Last edited by Nero86 (2015-04-10 01:58:15)

Nero86 wrote:... compiled , and make installed.
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