Questions tagged [lynx]
Lynx is a cross platform, GPL licensed, text-mode web browser.
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How to check consistency of a generated web site using recursive HTML parsing
I have a FOSS project whose web site is generated by asciidoc and some custom scripts as an horde (thousands) of static files locally in the source files' repo, copied into another workspace and ...
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How Can I Change The Backgound Color in Lynx From `lynx.cfg`?
I am using this script, from another stack extange post. It allows me to force Lynx to use the proper terminal colors. The issue is that the backgound color is incorrect, and it is reading the 7th ...
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lynx - change Line Edit Style / lineedit_mode
What I want to know:
What is the name of the variable name in /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg with the option Line Edit Style?
I am trying to set it to Bash-like Bindings, but I can't find any documentation on ...
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How to sequentially open URLs in lynx?
from $ man lynx page:
If more than one local file or remote URL is listed on the command line, Lynx will open only the last interactively. All of the names (local files and remote URLs) are ...
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What are Lynx CGI scripts?
In lynx.cfg, it contains:
.h1 CGI scripts
# These settings control Lynx's ability to execute various types of scripts.
.h2 LOCAL_EXECUTION_LINKS_ALWAYS_ON
.h2 LOCAL_EXECUTION_LINKS_ON_BUT_NOT_REMOTE
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Does Lynx have a view similar to Browser "Reader view"
Is there a Reader view for Lynx?
to explain trying to find answers to the following questions:
is there a Reader view (similar to Firefox: Reader View)?
is it possible to create add-in or extension?
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Lynx browser access and braille
Hello fellow Stack Exchange users can you please help? Does anyone know if there is an ability to adapt webpages for the braille alphabet within the Lynx browser?
This seems like the perfect web ...
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How to disable TLS certificate validation in lynx?
I need to access some webpage for which the TLS certificate is invalid,
but lynx refuses to connect.
Is there an option similar to curl -k for lynx?
Here's config file as request
.h1 Auxiliary ...
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DNS lookup from lynx failing to ncbi eutils using ISP DNS but ok with 8.8.8.8
I have several utilities that use the NCBI Eutils server via wget or lynx.
Recently, lynx started failing with a DNS error,
Looking up eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Making HTTPS connection to eutils.ncbi....
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Lynx cookies not being saved
If I'm not wrong, Lynx will save the cookies from a session on a file, the default is ~/.lynx_cookies. But, when I accept cookies in Lynx session with Always or Yes when prompted, the cookies doesn't ...
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How to open several local (HTML) documents in lynx?
I was planning to use lynx for reading all local HTML files in a folder:
lynx ~/Documents/webpages/*
I don't know how to move beyond the first document. Quitting with qq exits the program and returns ...
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How to get around 403 errors on websites with text-based browsers?
The issue seems to stem from a misconfigured web server and has affected some domains I've came across in lynx and w3m, but links can access at least in some instances. Can this be resolved on the ...
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Is it possible to multiple login on the same server with wget?
The aim is to enter different accounts at the same time. With lynx this is possible using files for each account with the -cfg=~/file argument.
wget has a .wgetrc file that can be configured with:
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What is the difference between lynx and pandoc? [closed]
In this thread I was suggested to do an action with lynx or pandoc.
To my understanding, both programs can output an all backend and solely or primarily textual webpage, in console, pretty much as ...
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Using vim as default text editor for lynx
I want to use vim as the text editor while opening a website using lynx.
How do I do it? I see a switch present in lynx as -editor=EDITOR but giving -editor=vim makes no difference to lynx.
