On 07/06/17 17:23, Christos Zoulas wrote: [---] > Alas, because of network policy on the wifi network, I needed to enter > a code to access the network, and for that I needed a browser. We don't > ship a browser in base. > >>From the looks of it, a text browser would suffice (and it did), so > I decided to go with "links" as opposed to "lynx" for no particular > reason.
I asked for this many years ago (I'd say 2006-2007:ish) for the same reason (university network required web login, and I couldn't download lynx because I couldn't authenticate because I had no lynx..). After I had bootstrapped using a neighbor's computer I wrote a small program which did the minimal required to send the form data required to authenticate (It just generated a HTTP request, sent it to the login server and stored the result in a file). (Much like wget's --post-data argument works). Then I made a rc.d script for it so it ran at boot. I don't know how complicated those web login-things generally are. The one at the university didn't require a session; one could just submit the form and it worked. If that's the norm, then it's pretty trivial to write a "weblogin" tool which could be included in base for these types of bootstrapping needs. -- Kind regards, Jan Danielsson
