s/EMCAScript/ECMAScript
2008/5/21 ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2008/5/20 Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I would like to use lynx to manage my local small lan router. I can
>> manage a broadband modem that way. But the router webpage expects to be
>> managed by a graphical browser, so the initial control webpage just
>> shows up as unintelligible garbage.
>>
>> Since I run command line only, I do not want to activate X, install a
>> graphical browser, and run X, with all the overhead and security issues,
>> just to manage a simple router. Is there another way text-only way to
>> accomplish this (ie, ssh etc.)?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Since you apparently *require* a text-only browser, have you tried these:
> ELinks
> Links
> w3m
>
> Wikipedia also lists edbrowse, but it doesn't appear to be in ports,
> so YMMV trying to get it to work on OpenBSD.
>
> If you *don't* really *require* a text-only/console browser, ie. if
> there is e.g. a chance to enable SSH on your modem (some of these run
> Linux...), then you'll have to give more details.
>
> Another solution that I could think of might be to use curl/wget to
> fetch the pages you want, and then to write a program/shell script to
> transmogrify the page to something you can use. Of course, in the
> extreme this might require partially implementing an EMCAScript
> interpreter -- assuming that that's what's really missing; not being
> able to see the colourful images should not be much of an issue, but
> most text-based browsers not grokking EMCAScript probably would be.
>
> Hope this helps,
> --ropers
