On May 22, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Default User wrote:
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 00:36 +0200, ropers wrote:
s/EMCAScript/ECMAScript
2008/5/21 ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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
Thanks for the suggestions, but no luck. Unfortunately, none of the
text browsers I tried (lynx, links, elinks, links+, w3m) worked.
The router's internal webpage is <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
HTML
4.0 TANSITIONAL//EN">. It seems to require javascript (ECMAscript),
which may well be the problem.
SSH to port 22 does not work (it just times out), and telnet replies
"connection refused".
I am not up to compiling external applications; I try to stick with
what's in the OpenBSD packages collection.
And of course, the manufacturer's website was absolutely clueless.
So, it seems that I can either:
1) just manage the router from another computer with another OS.
2) activate X on the OpenBSD computer and install a graphical browser.
If I choose option #2, what what graphical browser would have the
least
overhead, and above all, do the least damage to my security?
I know it's not OpenBSD's fault that the router's control webpage
requires javascript, but I am surprised that there doesn't seem to
be a
simpler, less insecure alternative. Oh, well - so much for
security . . .
3) Stop using closed crappy proprietary routers?
You obviously have the acumen to install and use openbsd. Why not use
OpenBSD as your gateway machine?
for mild to moderate connections one of the cheap soekris running on a
compact flash card works fantastically IMO.
-Adam
