On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 00:36 +0200, ropers wrote: > 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 > >
Thanks for the suggestions, but no luck. Unfortunately, none of the text browsers I tried (lynx, links, elinks, links+, w3m) worked. The router's internal webpage is <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TANSITIONAL//EN">. It seems to require javascript (ECMAscript), which may well be the problem. SSH to port 22 does not work (it just times out), and telnet replies "connection refused". I am not up to compiling external applications; I try to stick with what's in the OpenBSD packages collection. And of course, the manufacturer's website was absolutely clueless. So, it seems that I can either: 1) just manage the router from another computer with another OS. 2) activate X on the OpenBSD computer and install a graphical browser. If I choose option #2, what what graphical browser would have the least overhead, and above all, do the least damage to my security? I know it's not OpenBSD's fault that the router's control webpage requires javascript, but I am surprised that there doesn't seem to be a simpler, less insecure alternative. Oh, well - so much for security . . .
