On 2011-07-31, at 16:59, Graham Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the quick response and reference to "expect". Actually > I'm so used to manipulating apps with xdotool etc it never occurs to > me that an app may offer the facility to script itself, as lynx does. > In the interim I discovered -cmd_log and -cmd_script, and its a whole > lot easier to do what I want that way. > And thank you all very much for lynx. I used it a little on windows > but that version doesn't support https. But since converting to linux > a few months back and discovering that this lynx does support https it > has become my browser of choice; so much faster and no distractions, > wonderful.
The windows version just needs a dll for ssl to work normally. Let us know if you need a copy. Stefan > On 7/31/11, Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Graham Lawrence wrote: >> >>> I'm writing a bash script to automate my sign-ins at various web >>> sites. Is it possible for the script to access the content of the >>> blue highlighted line near the bottom of the lynx screen, so that it >>> can determine if it is currently at a (NORMAL LINK) or at a (Text >>> Entry Field), etc? >> >> Not easily, I think. The usual response to questions about >> screen-scraping would be to use "expect", but I believe that's >> too hard (because of all of the screen optimization made by curses). >> >> -- >> Thomas E. Dickey >> http://invisible-island.net >> ftp://invisible-island.net >> > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
