Hi folks,
I have recently been using the edbrowse 3.7.1 package provided by
my package manager on two systems here, debian sid, and archlinux.
I wanted to switch to the git version on both systems, with these
results:
On archlinux, I did a git clone using the URL shown on
www.edbrowse.org, chang
Hi Jeff,
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Geoff McLane wrote:
Hi Chuck,
Concerning HTML Tidy, not sure what you refer to when you say 'master.zip'?
What README?
The README is in the edbrowse directory created by the git-clone . It
says to retrieve
https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/archive/master.zip
Jeff,
I just took a look at the version file in the directory created by
unzipping master.zip, and guess what? It's 5.6.0 with the date you
indicated.
But I don't know what to think about the failure of cpp to pass the
simple compile test. I've never done anything to change the default
insta
Hi Kevin,
Well, g++ was already in /usr/bin, but I followed your recommendation
anyway, and got this:
Script started on 2017-12-04 19:25:38-0500
[archie@debian ~]$ sudo aptitude install g++
[ 0%] Reading package lists[100%] Reading package
lists
One more fact:
$ cmake --version
cmake version 3.9.5
I'm beginning to appreciate the simplicity of archlinux, where
everything "just works!"
Chuck
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, Chris Brannon wrote:
Hi Chuck,
Hi Chris,
First, you may not even need to build tidy from git. It may be as easy
as installing tidy5-dev or tidy-dev. I don't know what package name
they're using on Debian. If it is tidy-dev, make sure the major version
number is 5, so
Hi Karl,
Interesting. I'm assuming that by "latest version" of tidy you mean the
5.6.0 that Jeff mentioned, and that my Debian environment won't compile.
Well, I already have a "released" edbrowse 3.7.1 on Debian that works,
and a current devel 3.7.1 on Arch that works, so I might defer furth
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, Geoff McLane wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Jeff,
Sorry for the problems here, at least as far as HTML Tidy is concerned...
1. Yes, for some period recently, tidy.h was being installed in a
sub-directory,
'tidy'... That is into /usr/include/tidy/, or /usr/local/include/tidy/...
Ho
Hi folks,
Well, thanks Karl, fixing the #include's was simple as PI. One file,
two statements. I had to install libtidy-dev and duktape-dev, after
which edbrowse compiled and installed, using the tidy5 and duktape
packages supplied by Debian.
Sorry, Jeff, maybe another time.
Chuck
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Hi people,
Today I solved a problem relating to my c++ compiler failing on the
simple test program for tidy 5.6.0, and want to report the solution,
together with an apology.
Turns out that many months ago I was fiddling with ways to invoke c++
related to some other problem, and in the course of
Hi everyone, and Happy New Year.
Long ago amazon.com was accessible using edbrowse, but they have both
come a long way since then. At present I'm using 3.7.1 from the github
archive, with the jar variable set correctly, but cannot sign into my
account successfully.
What I notice is this:
#1
Hi Dominique,
Many thanks. I'll recompile edbrowse as you suggest and be able to use
gdb for later checks.
I'm much relieved to know this problem is reproducible. I have two
others waiting in the wings
Chuck
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Hi Karl,
On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Karl Dahlke wrote:
Ok, yeah, my bad, I think I fixed it now.
I also have an amazon account and just logged in.
I will say though it's god-awful slow...
Yes, but it's still faster than getting my daughter to do it for me
The segfault is gone now, but it seem
Hi everyone,
Turns out I still have a problem signing into my Amazon account,
although it no longer segfaults.
The credentials that work correctly using windows fail to work using
edbrowse.
Those credenttials have been stable for several months, and I am
well-known to Amazon by virtue of my Ama
Hi everyone,
My Amazon sign-in problem is shared by Larry Baggett, so I'm
copying him on this. I am including the final dozen or so lines
following submitting my sign-in request with db3 selected.
A script of the failed sign-in effort shows more, it is at:
www.panix.com/~chuxroom/signing-in.txt
Wow! I need some guidance on using db5 here.
First of all, I retrieved amazon.wendy.5 with wget, which turns out to
be 3.5 mb. I looked at the first few lines and the last few, and saw
that the db level was already in effect when "e www.amazon.com" was
issued, so I set mine in the config file.
Okay, I will do that, but first I have been preparing another email to
the list, let me insert it here:
Hi Karl, Kevin, and all,
Well, I have Karl's db5 run successfully signing into Amazon, and
I have my own attempt to replicate that data in order to diff the
two outputs.
However, as I indic
Karl,
Well I have a log for you to look at, and I will too, but first:
I followed your steps, and quickly got the initial raw html size, at
which point the size of /tmp/log was about 2k with only 54 lines, and it
stayed that way. The rendered size was never displayed. But when, out of
curiosi
Hi Kevin,
I have amazon.wendy.5 here too, and have posted two db5 runs of my own
failed logins. I used grep to search for prepopulatedLoginID in all
three files, and found this:
$ grep -c prepopulatedLoginId amazon*
amazon.chuck.5:0
amazon.wendy.5:16
$ grep -c prepopulatedLoginId signing-in.t
Hi Kevin,
I looked at how one gets from the Amazon opening screen to the
sign-in screen by using the capital A command on line 11, and it's
not pretty. I'm not up to tackling that shortcut myself.
About cookies, in my debugging output I see references to expired
cookies, which seems strange. Bu
Hi everyone,
There is a file of the crash now available at
www.panix.com/~chuxroom/amazon.chuck.5.crash
Chuck
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Good morning everyone,
Both Debian and ArchLinux provide duktape packages with version 2.2.0,
in one case it's 2.2.0-3, and in the other it's 2.2.0-1.
Is that a problem for me?
Chuck
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Hi Karl and all,
On both Debian and ArchLinux, installing duktape from the git archive
made no difference in the way my edbrowse fails when signing into
Amazon. But at least I've ruled out that possibility.
And one other possibility is ruled out too, but it's peculiar to the way
I use edbrowse.
Hi Kevin, Karl, and all,
Let me try to recap my situation a bit. When I run edbrowse on my
ArchLinux OS, it does not segfault. Not even when it is run with
db5 redirected to /tmp/log. Like Kevin's experience though, it just
returns me to the login screen with minimum hint of what's wrong.
On
Karl and all,
With the timers command, I was able to run edbrowse on debian using db5
without having to redirect to /tmp/log, and that seemed to permit my
pressing submit on the amazon sign-in screen without crashing. I
captured that experiment with the script command, but have not posted
it.
O
Karl and all,
I just posted a zip file containing two logs of edbrowse attempting to
sign into Amazon with db5 enabled, one that crashes and one that does
not.
The file is at www.panix.com/~chuxroom/amazon-crash-nocrash.zip
It doesn't touch the failure to sign in, but it might help to corner th
I'm good, it's working.
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On Sun, 14 Jan 2018, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
I'm good, it's working.
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Karl,
The other day when you wrote about them, I pulled and got them, played
with them, liked them, but today after at least one other pull, they are
gone.
I wish they were back. I like them.
Chuck
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Wow! I'm in! How much sweat and blood were shed over that one?
Many thanks for all the effort spent.
As to what to do, I recommend checking the LANG and creating an
appropriate line in .ebrc
Chuck
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Hi Karl and all,
Can you confirm that the following gives the same error that it gives
me? It fails for me on both Debian and ArchLinux, the failures started
within the last week or so.
edbrowse "https://www.literotica.com/stories/new_submissions.php";
Here's what I get:
the curl library retu
Karl,
when i do:
curl "https://www.literotica.com/stories/new_submissions.php";
I get a response consisting of 450 lines, about 56K bytes, which I
captured but have not yet examined. I think I have been shrinking
lately: More and more things are way over my head!
Chuck
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Karl,
I wrote too soon.
I opened the results of the curl output with edbrowse, used the b
command to render it, and get the expected and familiar page I was
unable to get when edbrowse accessed that URL directly.
Chuck
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Karl,
The df command tells me this about the partition where Debian is
running:
/dev/sda2 167G 95G 64G 60% /
so that's not it, it's only about 56K I'm trying to download. May
"typically caused" is a clue. Maybe there are other "atypical causes" at
work here.
I occasionally visit tha
Hi,
stackoverflow is back to 12 seconds (assuming you have the nojs to prevent the
infinite loop).
I hope other sites will run faster as well.
I tried www.amazon.com, and it runs like greased lightning! But while
the resulting screen contains most of what is expected, many links are
not disp
The site says some features require me to agree to using cookies, but
when I try to agree, I get this:
I consent to cookiesI want more information
i1*
no javascript associated with this button
.
I consent to cookiesI want more information
i2*
no javascript associated with this button
Is there an
Karl and all,
The ability to search for the header tags, h1, h2, etc., are a really
great addition to the toolkkit for navigating web sites. This is shaping
up to be a great release.
Chuck
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Hi all,
Last evening I created an account at gkg.net, a domain registrar,
which seemed successful. They sent me email, I followed the link it
contained, they acknowledged that I was me, and even called me Chuck
on their first page. Then I turned in for the night.
This morning I tried logging in t
Hi folks,
I am happy to report that www.fastmail.com is easily readable with
edbrowse 3.7.4. A couple of years ago when fastmail abandoned its
accessible interface, I was obliged to abandon my then email address
since their new interface was invisible to edbrowse. But fastmail is
back, and I wa
Well we need to figure out why that section of code does not appear, but in the
meantime, try this: unbrowse, remove the word disabled, browse, and go.
I did that, but it was no good. However, when I unbrowsed again to
examine that area, the word Disabled" was replaced with a request to
supp
Hi Karl,
My daughter with her Windows laptop created an account for me on
fastmail.com successfully. The kapcha took a form I have never seen
before. Instead of an image to copy to an input field, it took the
form of a series of statements to click on, each of them reading:
I am not a robot
Hi Dominique,
Chuck Hallenbeck wrote on Fri, Jul 20, 2018:
My daughter with her Windows laptop created an account for me on
fastmail.com successfully. The kapcha took a form I have never seen
before. Instead of an image to copy to an input field, it took the
form of a series of statements
Let me add my own holiday wishes, as well as my appreciation for
edbrowse. and all the thought and effort of Karl and his team. I
occasionally do a "git pull" just in case, but it is still my #1 tool
here.
Chuck
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, Kevin Carhart wrote:
Hope everyone is doing all right. I
Hi Karl, Kevin, and all,
Just a note that debian is supplying edbrowse 3.7.4-3 as a regular
package in its Buster version, just recently promoted to the stable
version.
Chuck
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Hi folks,
I am using edbrowse from the master branch on git,
and have encountered a problem with unresponsive buttons on www.storyworth.com,
where I have an account. My daughter, with a windows laptop,
also has access to the account, and has no problem activating the same buttons.
The buttons in
Hi folks,
I unbrowsed the page that produced the unresponsive button,
searched for the button name, Edit title, and found this, which seems to be a
complete list entry:
Edit title
I am using edbrowse from the master branch on git,
and have encountered a problem with unresponsive buttons on www
Hi all,
I must have overlooked something, and need suggestions.
I retrieved and compiled the js24 sources, using the default instructions +
"make install", apparently successfully (no fatal errors, numerous
warnings)
I retrieved the master branch of edbrowse from git after Adam's pushes
yesterda
Hi,
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Adam Thompson writes:
>
> > Where did it install to?
>
> Looks like it uses autotools, so my guess is under /usr/local. Chuck,
> I'd look under /usr/local/include/mozjs-24 for the headers and
> /usr/local/lib for the libraries.
Yes, that's where
Many thanks for the help. It's always nice to have multiple solutions to a
problem. I'll be using the new edbrowse routinely now, and we'll see what
happens.
BTW, that mozjs-24 package occupies 1.8 GB of disk space on my sistem. I
suppose I could rm the directory now that it's installed under /us
Good morning,
There is a front end to Google at www.startpage.com where the mozjs-24
version of edbrowse seems unable to activate the submit buttton. I no
longer have a copy of the program which uses the older js libraries, so I
can't say if it works or not. But elinks works, returning reasonable
Hi Adam,
Here is what it looks like here:
Script started on Sun 09 Feb 2014 11:07:03 AM EST
[chuxroom@dj ~]$ e www.startpage.com
no trailing newline
33074
1550
/<>
<>
i1?
text query
i=small squirrels
db8
i2*
scmd = *
findField returns 2.92
undoCompare no undo map
jSyncup starts
jSyncup ends
www.
Hi all,
I thought I'd see if the recent changes allowed edbrowse 3.5.1 to submit a
query to google through the front end at www.startpage.com. This time the
submit button worked, but instead of getting a list of search results, here
is what I got:
We apologize for the inconvenience: to prevent p
I can't get onto that site any more. Here is what happens when I try. The
references to Whittier Place, or Whittier Health Center, are references to
the wifi service here, my only access to the net at present.
Script started on Mon 10 Feb 2014 03:29:54 PM EST
[chuxroom@dj ~]$ e
edbrowse ready
db4
Karl,
Before ruling out coincidences, consider this: A few days ago I abandoned a
phone number I was using for my smart phone service and activated a simple
landline phone. The old number and the new number were assigned by the
phone companies involved, the former by Verizon Wireless, and the latt
Can you use elinks for this purpose? Elinks works on startpage.
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Karl Dahlke writes:
>
> > There is something else amiss about the way we submit that query.
>
> I get the same thing, even when JavaScript is disabled.
> My guess is that they're expecting
Chris,
Yes, ua1 identifies me as a lynx browser, it lets me in, and the submit
button works as expected. Below is the script:
Script started on Mon 10 Feb 2014 07:34:05 PM EST
[radio@dj ~]$ e
edbrowse ready
ua1
Lynx/2.8.4rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14
db4[K[K
[Kb www.startpage.com
33074
1550
/<>
<>
i
Hi,
Much of your work is well beyond my competence, but I have been
implementing all the changes. I particularl appreciate the background
download feature.
But one site I often visit has begun to malfunction after yesterday's
pull. It admits me to the page after numerous complaints about jquery,
Hi people,
After yesterday, edbrowse 3.5.2 now causes an error when attempting to
connect to the NLS Bard site, https://nlsbard.loc.gov
Both lynx and elinks connect okay, it's just edbrowse. Any clues? Can
you reproduce the failure to connect?
Thanks,
Chuck
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In my .ebrc, certfiles points to a local file containing the ssl certs
provided when I ran the script to build .ebrc a long time ago. Is there
somewhere else it should point so it can see other certs as well as the
ones in that file? I don't know much about certificates. (obviously).
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Many thanks Chris and Karl. Turns out there are a couple of ways to skin
a cat. I should definitely read the docs once in a while. For the
moment, pointing certfile to /etc/ssl;/certs/ca-certificates.crt did the
trick, so I'll go with that for the moment.
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Karl,
If you make that change for pdf files, how would a user be able to
retrieve and save the original pdf? At present I allow the automatic
download, then apply a simple bash script to convert the saved pdf to a
txt version.
Chuck
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Hi,
I've been using edbrowse to play with twitter some, and cannot figure out how
to unfollow someone. Has anyone else been
able to do that?
Any tips appreciated.
Chuck
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Karl,
I noticed in an earlier post that you propose to use mplayer with an
identical set of options for the file types ra, rm, ram, and pls. I think
there's a problem there.
The types .ra and .rm are expected to be used on an actual audio file,
while the types .ram and .pls are expected to refe
I'm a heavy NLS user, and it works fine here too. The original message
said he "clicked on" the download link, but clicking is not in the
edbrowse vocabulary. If he pressed enter, he would just go to the next
line, usually a blank line, and sit there as he described. The usual way
to select that li
Hi all,
Just reconnected here after long absence. Also just installed 3.6.0 on
my archlinux system, all libraries in and versions good, both edbrowse
and edbrowse-js compiled and a symlink between e and edbrowse. But
javascript fails everywhere I tried it. Here is a simple example:
Script star
Hi all,
I have encountered a couple of websites where the g command fails to
activate a link using the 3.6.0 release on archlinux.
An easy site to test is: www.georgehowe.com
Line 5 of that site says: * {Sign in} or {Create an account}
Neither g1 nor g2 has any effect there, although g without
Hi all,
I would also add my congratulations, and express my gratitude, to
the edbrowse development team. I have been an edbrowse, archlinux,
and command line addict for many years, and have welcomed each advance
in functionality. But I have become discouraged recently because the
moving target
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Hi all,
Well, it turns out I am able to log into my fastmail account after all,
using the address classic.fastmail.com, but only if JS is disabled.
Once logged in, I can take some actions, but not others. For instance I
can m
Hi folks,
Here's one perhaps only Karl and I might notice: With the current 3.6.1+,
it is no longer possible to select a story category at the following
site. At first a category seems to have been selected, but when then
activating to commence the search, the problem is discovered and
prevents t
I get the same behavior, but it works okay if I search for sweater girl,
pinup girl, school girl, or girl crazy.
Chuck
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 09:46:40AM -0400, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> Search on wikipedia for anything simple and well defined, such as pencil,
> and all is well,
> but search for girl a
Greetings Karl and all,
Sorry to have to report a bug that has not appeared before.
On Amazon, after having found what I want to purchase,
the button to add it to my cart no longer works.
It responds instead withe a phrase
resembling: "There is no javascript associated with this button."
Anybody h
;s.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> > Greetings Karl and all,
> >
> > Sorry to have to report a bug that has not appeared before.
> > On Amazon, after having found what I want to purchase,
> > the button to add it to my
Hi friends,
I was a fastmail user for about ten years until a month or two ago.
When I began, they had a single interface which was totally accessible
from the command line, but later they named that interface "classic" and
introduced their "standard" interface. Soon that became the default
and
Woops! The memory size mentioned below is corrected to KB, not MB. Sorry.
Hi friends,
I was a fastmail user for about ten years until a month or two ago.
When I began, they had a single interface which was totally accessible
from the command line, but later they named that interface "classic" and
Hi Karl,
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 12:56:17AM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> Well now that it's set up, I kinda like an edbrowse channel.
>
Are you familiar with tmux? It's a terminal multiplexer that should
enable you to use only one virtual terminal for your IRC setup
Chuck
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Hi guys,
Debian provides edbrowse 3.6.1 as an official package, but I want to do
better than that. I grabbed the 3.6.2 source package from the edbrowse
site, but am unable to compile tidy5html. I am told the test compile
with cpp failed, and when checking the version, I get this:
cpp --version
c
I recently subscribed to a shell acount at www.panix.com, and asked
them if edbrowse was available to their user community. They looked it
up on wikipedia, then found www.edbrowse.org, and offered to install
it. A day or two later version 3.6.2 was available. They told me where
their certfile was,
Kevin,
For the record, I for one appreciate what you are doing for both causes!
Chuck
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Kevin Carhart wrote:
Thank you, Karl. That's exciting. I will be doing more edbrowse after I
publish and release the thing I've been leading up to for 8 months. (It has
to do with
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