On Friday 27 August 2010 23:11:39 Ron Guerin wrote:
> Chris Knadle wrote:
...
> > I tend to flip back-and-forth between Firefox (Iceweasel), Konqueror,
> > Arora, Lynx, and Elinks depending on what I'm doing.
> I install a lot of browsers for the sake of testing, and partly I
> suppose because I don't feel that anything we've seen yet is the last
> word on "best ever". I do all my heavy lifting in Firefox right now,
> but for various reasons (testing things logged in vs. not logged in
> being a common case) I often keep a second browser open. Right now that
> second browser is Chrome, but my preferred second choice is Epiphany.
I occasionally also use Epiphany for browsing "risky" domains that I think are
associated with "junk email" domains. These are usually recognizable --
typically they only contain an "opt-out" box which is likely used in the
background to "opt-in" without your consent for every other domain they
have...
> I don't use Lynx much anymore, I think because there's so much these
> days that can't be used without JavaScript.
One reason I need Lynx is to read documentation in HTML that's on a remote box
that I'm accessing through an SSH connection. It's also very useful to have
Lynx around to check your own website pages for accessibility purposes.
> My main text browser for
> the last couple of years has been dog, because it's been handy for
> examining questionable URLs sent to my URL shortener.
Similarly checking for spam pages. Makes sense.
> Unfortunately,
> dog ("better than cat") has been dropped from Debian, and I will have to
> replace it with a wrapper script or alias for this:
>
> wget -q -O - --save-headers http://example.com
>
> This gives me what dog gave me. HTTP headers, followed by content, to
> stdout. I suppose I might eventually find it useful to set the user
> agent for these examinations, which is something wget will do that dog
> didn't.
>
> - Ron
My girlfriend Criss uses this URL shortener, which she seems happy with.
It's in PHP and uses MySQL for the DB backend.
http://yourls.org/
At the moment I don't think there's any URL shortener within Debian AFAIK.
-- Chris
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