Reading through the man pages, I couldn't find a way to specify
the Referer header for my startup URL provided on the
command-line. I'd like to be able to do something like
lynx http://example.com/p2 -referer=http://example.com/p1
The only bits I saw regarded *suppressing* the referer heade
On 2013-07-18 16:12, Gulshan Singh wrote:
> Is there any way to jump to the next input field in Lynx? For
> example, if I want to search for something in google, I have to
> keep pushing the down arrow key until the search field is selected.
> Is there any way to jump to that search field?
I do th
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Graham Lawrence wrote:
> > If I wish to download a file whose name contains spaces, Lynx
> > presents a suggested name for the file consisting only of the
> > first word of its name. Is there any convenient way to have Lynx
> > present the entire name instead?
You might be
On 2013-10-09 10:34, Jason Min wrote:
> When I use Lynx browser to connect to www.referenceusa.com, it
> fails after 10 trials, whereas other browser like firefox and
> chrome have no problems.
It looks like it's sniffing the User Agent and acting broken when it
receives something it doesn't recog
On 2013-10-09 11:24, Jason Min wrote:
> But, after I chose business search, and I entered 'abc' for the
> company name, I can not trigger the search.
It looks like it's triggered by JavaScript, so you may be stuck
unless you use a browser that supports JS. Stefan gives some handy
suggestions for
On 2013-11-07 15:28, Shérab wrote:
> CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
> You are seeing this message because this HTTPS site requires a
> 'Referer header' to be sent by your Web browser, but none was sent.
You might need to check your lynx.cfg file for various REFERER*
settings. In parti
On 2013-11-07 21:50, David Woolley wrote:
> On 07/11/13 14:40, Tim Chase wrote:
>>> CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
>>> You are seeing this message because this HTTPS site requires a
>>> 'Referer header' to be sent by your Web browser, but none wa
On 2013-11-21 20:50, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > It seems that Lynx on Debian Wheezy (version 2.8.8dev.12) does not
> > allow to upload files trough a form beyond 8192 bytes. I do not
> > find
>
> I use the feature occasionally with the w3c validator, and just
> checked it now with a 200kb file (wor
I noticed that lynx doesn't seem to make certain semi-obvious
transformations from fancy Unicode characters down to standard ascii
characters. For an example, check out my tweet on this page in both
a GUI browser such as Firefox/Chrome/Chromium and in Lynx:
https://twitter.com/gumnos/status/46815
On 2014-05-18 22:18, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> >I noticed that lynx doesn't seem to make certain semi-obvious
> >transformations from fancy Unicode characters down to standard
> >ascii characters. For an example, check out my tweet on this page
> >in both
>
> I require Lynx to not do this, becau
Trying to explore the source, I went to try and find a repo
containing the historical source of lynx but came up dry. All I
found was the list-o-source-tarballs at
http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html
Is there some git/mercurial/subversion/cvs/darcs/whatever repo that I
could point at to meande
On 2015-02-11 18:18, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Is there some git/mercurial/subversion/cvs/darcs/whatever repo
>> that I could point at to meander the history of lynx?
>
> no - see
>
> http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx.html#patches
No big deal. I'll just untar the releases there into a git re
On 2015-02-11 18:00, Tim Chase wrote:
> I'll just untar the releases there into a git repo sequentially as
> there are some tools to facilitate that. I just wanted to prevent
> duplication of effort in the event someone else had already done
> the work.
I've pushed a clone
On 2015-12-16 17:29, Hal.sz S.ndor wrote:
> On 2015/12/16 16:41, Tomas Nordin wrote
> > I cannot connect to Duckduckgo.com. I tried the
> > duckduckgo.com/lite version but no improvement.
> >
> > Unexpected network read error; connection aborted
>
> Same here, OK with Firefox
lynx: fails wi
On 2015-12-16 23:39, Ian Collier wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 05:19:14PM -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> > doing it by hand works too:
> >
> > $ (echo "GET / HTTP/1.1" ; echo "host: duckduckgo.com" ; echo ) |
> > nc duckduckgo.com 80 > test.ht
> On 2015-12-16 23:39, Ian Collier wrote:
> > doing it by hand works too:
> >
> > $ (echo "GET / HTTP/1.1" ; echo "host: duckduckgo.com" ; echo )
> > | nc duckduckgo.com 80 > test.html
>
> But if you send HTTP/1.0 instead of 1.1 it closes the connection
> without sending any data.
Just received
On 2016-11-03 19:31, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> I am wondering what the default user agent header is, if you ask
> lynx not to send a user agent header?
If you uncheck the "Send user agent header", it's simply omitted from
the list of headers. You can test it at
http://headers.cloxy.net/request.
[Addressing out-of-order as that's how my responses congealed in my
head]
On 2016-11-22 05:10, Ashutosh Sharma wrote:
> 2. Auto detection of protocol. e.g. duckduckgo.com should
> automatically redirect to http://www.duckduckgo.com. eLinks already
> has this feature.
It does? I just issued
$
On 2016-11-23 00:33, Ashutosh Sharma wrote:
>> $ nslookup duckduckgo.com
>> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
> I can't understand what's wrong. My connection has proxy
> connection, is that causing this problem? Also I tried changing the
> DNS addr
>
> nslookup duckduckgo.co
hesis keys), or just hit Insert/Delete to scroll two lines,
> to get back the context.
For me, it's ^N/^P to get the two-line scroll.
> Tim Chase dixit:
> >DDG seems to do some user-agent sniffing, detecting that Lynx is
>
> Yes, that’s a feature, they have /, /lite/ and /htm
On 2016-12-07 20:20, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > As a starting point I’ve entered “notepad” in the appropriate
> > field of the options page, and notepad does open, but not with
> > the current document loaded.
>
> Lynx is supposed to add the filename, and is supposed to quote it
> when the name cont
On 2017-07-24 15:19, Guy Broome wrote:
> How on earth did VMS Lynx users get ^Xe (Ctrl-x e) entered to jump
> into an external editor from form fields?
While I have no idea how VMS lynx users did it, or if there are ways
to remap keys, ^E^E (control+e, control+e) in an edit field seems to
produce
On 2017-09-11 12:25, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I got msmtp installed and configured. Maybe that will work.
Other things to check
- your ISP may be blocking outbound port 25 which is bare (non
SSL/TLS) SMTP, so your existing local MTA might be working but
blocked
- if you have a mail-server out
On 2017-10-14 11:36, Eric Guiziou wrote:
> Could you tell me please, how to access https web sites with lynx?
If your version of lynx is built with the proper crypt libraries, it
should Just Work by going to an HTTPS url such as
https://google.com
What is the output of "lynx -version" give?
On 2017-10-15 19:50, Chime Hart wrote:
> Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.8 (21 Dec 2015)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.4.9,
That should be enough for lynx to know *how* to talk TLS/SSL/HTTPS.
Though I'd be curious if it's trying to connect and then punting
because of bad certificates. If so, yo
On 2017-10-16 10:27, David Woolley wrote:
> Most professional sites are https nowadays, as it is now considered
> best practice to redirect to https if given just http.
Does Lynx respect HSTS (hypertext strict transport security) such
that, if a site says it will always be HTTPS, lynx will redirec
On 2017-10-23 14:48, russellb...@gmail.com wrote:
> Does that mean the browser never tries to access port 80?
> This would make no sense. I suppose it would make sense if the
> browser queried the target domain first, but what difference would
> that make? What's the difference between a br
On 2017-11-03 14:51, dan d. wrote:
> Before when using arrow keys to move between links on a page it
> would speack the label of each link.
>
> Now I must manually read the label of a new link.
> Any ideas on this, perhaps some item in the cfg file I overlooked?
The first thing that comes to mind
On 2018-04-15 20:04, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> No, I have no i386 system here. The only intel stuff in this
> system is some of the peripherals on the motherboard, all systems
> in this house are amd.
In this case, "i386" refers to a 32-bit system and "amd64" refers to
a 64-bit system.
As you menti
An error issuing "chmod 600 ~/.mailcap" sounds suspiciously like for
some reason the home directory is mounted read-only. A couple things
to check
1) some (all?) SD cards have a little slider on them that sets them
to read-only or read/write, very reminiscent of old 3½-inch floppies.
It's on the
On 2018-05-26 11:40, Chime Hart wrote:
> OK Tim, since several of these correspondents with Jude-and-Russel,
> I discovered I cannot go anywhere with abt briwser bir cab aot0get
> fubd archives.
Hah, I think your hand landed on the keyboard funny there.
> You see, last evening we were trying to
Since you can successfully SSH into your shellworld account, you
might use it as a relay to your work machine using the "-L" option to
SSH. If you're trying to SSH into ka...@example.com:22 and can't, but
can reach klewellen@shellworld:, you might do something like
$ ssh -p -L 2345:exam
If you have the "pdftotext" utility (part of my "poppler-utils"
package here on Debian), you might be able to either use it in your
mailcap
pdftotext "%s" - | less
or create a shell-script:
#!/bin/sh
pdftotext "$1" - | less
and then spawn that shell-script in your mailcap file:
applica
[sorry, a little OT for the Lynx list as it wanders off into
mail-programs rather than using the Gmail web interface via lynx]
On 2019-11-05 10:16, Mouse wrote:
> > gmail supports POP3 and IMAP access,
>
> My experience is that gmail supports POP and IMAP only if you are
> using one of a few bl
On 2019-11-05 15:49, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> How does mutt manage the need for a browser, to follow e-mail links
> for example?
Mutt outsources the following of links to an external program. The
typical way is to pipe the message to the "urlscan" program
(there's also a "urlview" but it lacks som
At least according to Google's support page
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en
you should be able to go to this link
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui
to force the HTML/low-bandwidth mode (hopefully a little easier than
trying to intercept the refresh).
Karen,
You can combine Thorsten's advice to use "-cfg=FILENAME" with my
previous shell-alias suggestion, which is what I've done in the past
to specify a local config file. With that in place, you can set your
default home-page in your local lynx config file (say, ~/.lynx.cfg)
echo "STARTFILE:
Karen,
While you might not be able to modify the system-wide lynx.cfg file,
you can copy the system one to your local directory and then use a
function/alias to start lynx with that lynx.cfg file instead of the
system one (see my previous message). I do this all the time to get
the functionality
Karen,
You can set up a shell alias with something like
alias ly='lynx https://google.com'
which lets you just type "ly" at the command-prompt and it will go to
whatever default URL you set. This is a local alias and doesn't
require editing any system configuration files. If you want it to
p
e the -useragent one, then never mind.
> thanks for all the ideas but again I am not interested in
> altering lynx.cfg in any fashion.
> Karen
>
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Tim Chase wrote:
>
> > Karen,
> >
> > You can combine Thorsten's advice to use &
without editing altering or
> changing anything else.
> As I said to rick, that he has done something himself in no way
> translates to the approximately 7 billion others sharing our world.
> Karen
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, Tim Chase wrote:
>
> > There are s
On 2019-11-17 16:37, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Big picture goal for whom?
You wanted to set your default start-page to a particular URL without
needing to enter it every time:
On 2019-11-15 17:52, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> The idea is to change this default homepage, not just simply visit
> a new sit
On 2019-11-17 19:10, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> If a user has a lynx.cfg file in their home directory or in
> /home/.lynx will lynx automatically use their configuration file
> rather than the system's /etc/lynx.cfg file?
reading through the most recent source release, it looks like it
prefers in the
On 2020-04-20 19:42, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Dixi quod…
>
> >export RL_CLCOPY_CMD='xsel -i'
> # and
> export RL_PASTE_CMD='xsel -o'
this also suggests that, even if you don't run X but you do run
a multiplexer like tmux, you could use something like
RL_CLCOPY_CMD='tmux loadb -'
RL_PASTE
On 2020-06-22 23:30, Claudio Calvelli wrote:
> Any suggestion on what one can tell these ignorants so they may
> learn something?
I know that the OWASP "Core Rule Set (CRS)" (prior to version 3.0) for
the Apache "mod_security" module had blocking based on the User-Agent
header that included lynx a
On 2020-10-20 15:33, Chime Hart wrote:
> So each time I go in options and uncheck the user agent box.
> Can I set these on a per site basis?
Not exactly. However if you launch lynx on those given sites, you
could pass a different config file, something like
alias lynxa='lynx -useragent="My Fab
do you have a particular URL that demonstrates the problem? This
sounds suspiciously like the traditional "drop cap" (which can be
done in CSS alone, maintaining the text uninterrrupted, but before it
became popular to do in CSS, folks would do by swapping out the first
real letter with a fancy im
I received the sample Poltico email you forwarded. Looking at the
underlying HTML, it looks like there are "fancy quotes" before the
characters that I noticed missing. For example, I see a fancy-quote
(0x201c) followed by the display of "eter Navarro" where the
underlying HTML has the fancy-quote
On 2021-03-31 18:36, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> This helps nothing without a way to reproduce this locally,
> for example a URL in question.
The source seems to have been the text/html component of an email.
However, here's a reproduction case:
$ xxd chime.html
: 3c68 746d 6c3e 3c62 6f64 79
On 2021-03-31 19:45, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> From: "Tim Chase"
>> $ xxd -r > chime.html << EOF
>> : 3c68 746d 6c3e 3c62 6f64 793e e280 9c48 ...H
>> 0010: 656c 6c6f 3c2f 626f 6479 3e3c 2f68 746d ello
>> there's a UTF-8 double-quot
On 2021-04-05 09:19, Tim Chase wrote:
> That's odd. I get the inverse behavior from what you describe. If
> I use
>
> $ LANG=C lynx chime.html
>
> I get the unicode placeholder character for the opening
> fancy-double-quote and lynx displays the full "He
On 2021-06-24 13:49, Stef Caunter wrote:
> alias lynx='/usr/local/bin/lynx -nopause -tna -useragent=IE . '
>
> "IE" seems to be the most innocuous choice for the major news
> sites. I have not tried "googlebot" ;)
I'm a big fan of using the googlebot User Agent on the grounds that
I've encountere
On 2021-06-26 23:14, Travis Siegel wrote:
> For what it's worth, epub books are already html. An epub file is
> just a zip file renamed to epub.
>
> Simply extract the epub file into a directory of your choice, and
> generally (though not always) the html files are layed out in name
> order, an
whoops, that might have been mod_security, not mod_proxy. Same
concern still holds though, a poorly configured server.
-tim
On 2021-08-23 13:23, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2021-08-23 13:18, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > Have you tried that link this morning?
>
> There does seem to
On 2021-08-23 13:18, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Have you tried that link this morning?
There does seem to be some sort of sniffing going on at the server.
I tried it in a handful of browsers (lynx, links, links2, w3m, dillo,
chromium, firefox). Some of them consistently gave a 503 error, some
consis
On 2022-03-20 02:08, s...@stof999.ch wrote:
> what is best (easiest) solution for copy text out of lynx AND
Depends on the particulars of what you want.
a) If you want a subset of what's displayed on the screen, I'd reach
for tmux which allows you to copy sections of the display to a
clipboard an
On 2022-03-23 08:21, s...@stof999.ch wrote:
> lynx makes line-breaks with 3spaces where there would be
> normaly a dynamic word wrap in html.
You can use lynx to dump the output of a URL to a file if you prefer:
$ lynx -width=9 -dump https://example.com > example.txt
which sets the wrap-wi
[resending, this time to the list rather than directly to the OP]
On 2022-09-06 08:41, Saniya Maheshwari wrote:
> only w
On 2022-09-06 19:07, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Tim Chase dixit:
>
> >I usually do this with an alias or shell function to
I recently used the Unicode character 'SYMBOL FOR ESCAPE' (U+241B)
in a reply:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/zrz87e/but_can_your_ide_do_this/j16mu84/
and was curious how it rendered in lynx. So I pulled up that comment
and this test page (which puts it in a UTF8 textbox):
https://www.fi
On 2022-12-25 13:57, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Tim Chase dixit:
>> but it looks like it causes weird behaviors.
>
> Huh? Works well for me. It just outputs the character, which
> is a printable character. Are you sure you have your terminal
> and lynx in UTF-8 mode both?
On 2022-12-30 23:42, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> While I generally have few issues accessing WordPress created
> sites, at least the one I have encountered, that does not necessarily
> translate to the tool itself.
If I understand correctly, I believe you're talking about the
accessibility of the admi
> dreamhost provides the WordPress tool, but they also just provide
> regular ftp for uploading.
Is there something in particular that WordPress offers over your
current setup?
It has some nice web-facing tools for administering the site and
tracking drafts, but it sounds like you already have a
On 2023-01-21 19:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> Only way I could share it is as an attachment,
>> its something like three pages of characters.
>
> I guess that's just too long then. Links (GET requests specifically)
> aren't required to work if they're above 1024 characters long.
According to RFC
On 2023-01-25 21:57, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Would it be possible for lynx to count the characters in an url and if the
> url is longer than 1024 characters offer to send the long url to an url
> shortening service and then catch the shortened url the service sent back
> and then open that shortened
On 2023-01-26 00:36, Travis Siegel wrote:
> There is a limit, but I don't know what it is off hand.?? It's listed in one
> of the RFCs, though I don't remember which one.
>
> A quick search on google tells me RFC 1035 is the relevant RFC, and
Section 3.1.1 of RFC 7230 defines recommended URL lengt
On 2023-02-17 14:38, Tom Schwindl wrote:
> I wonder if there is interest in a VCS for doing development work.
> It's kind of cumbersome to deal with tarballs and it gets
> unclear/messy very quickly.
I'd created a repo for personal use at one point. It wasn't too
hard, putting all the tarball dow
Replying inline
On 2024-04-02 15:33, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> I am helping someone resolve an issue, they have access to lynx, but the
> editor field is blank.
> They are using Ubuntu.
If they're already comfortable with a preferred editor, you can
tell Lynx to use that on the command-line with th
On 2024-04-05 17:24, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/body.html#NUMBER_LINKS_ON_LEFT
Nice! There's an option I hadn't encountered before and, test-driving
it, I must say I quite like it. Thanks for pointing it out!
-Tim
On 2024-08-27 17:23, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> I have access to an editor, and its spell checker for those moments when I
> am say sending a comment, or completing a form or text box in Lynx.
I presume you're using the control+x followed by control+e to invoke
your editor on the form/textbox, correc
The rather boring attached diff just adds "nano" to the list of
positionable editors in editor_can_position() of LYEdit.c so it
can be called with
nano +42 $TEMPFILE
to position the cursor on line 42 when using Nano. This came up
in the Blinux (blind Linux users) mailing list when a user was
c
is it possible to use a program to get all the text only of
the html? as if I open the html with a browser, then click
ctrl+a and then copy paste all the selected text
I need to do this in batch
can lynx do it?
Sounds like you're reaching for the "-dump" parameter that Lynx
supports, as descri
I have a tiny little problem, though: I installed it on Mac OS X.4,
and now lynx automatically pops up every time I open a new terminal
window. This means I now have no way of using the command line in OS
X, since quitting lynx quits the whole terminal session. What do I do?
A couple ideas occur
Just adding to David's already excellent response. Caveat,
some harsh looks at the reality of that page follow. If
you came looking for help, additional guidance is below.
But if you don't have a thick skin, the following may burn
akin to an early-round American Idol contestant learning
they can
David Combs wrote:
Say you hit a page that's 90% or 99% or even 100% full of
text-entry places, eg
[20] __ your preference
Whole page full of that stuff.
Problem: any command you type in is taken-in not as
a command to (immediately) execute, but instead as
plain old TEXT t
no, is rather ambiguous in this instance.
I interpret the terseness of Thomas's response as
0) no, xml-svg support has not lost appeal
1) no, progress hasn't been made towards developing a patch
2) life keeps him busy, so it's nowhere near the top of the stack
of things to do, and lynx devel
images
Lynx has some configuration options for how to display images
(ignore, as labels, or as links), and whether it verbosely shows
the filename if the ALT= attribute is missing.
lynx won't render JavaScript.
Doesn't do Flash/Silverlight/AIR/Java (thank goodness for small
gifts!) or CS
Actually the button tag behaviour in all browsers i've tested
is to submit the form in which it is, without any javascript.
The reason i'm using it is because it can be easily styled
with css styles.
I'm not sure either is particularly harder to style than the other:
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