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
