Need help using Lynx on Ubuntu Server

[Brie Gordon]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Markus Schönhaber <
ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de> wrote:

> Robert Dailey wrote:
>
> > I have an Ubuntu Server 8.04 box setup, which is connected directly to my
> > router on my LAN. From a remote computer, I want to SSH into my linux box
> > and use Lynx to access my router's firmware webpage and do simple things
> > like open ports, etc.
> >
> > The problem I'm having is that I believe my router's firmware page uses
> > Javascript, because it has a few buttons that are inaccessible from Lynx
> (It
> > just says [BUTTON] where it should be). I'm currently using a D-Link
> > DGL-4500 as my router for those curious as to what firmware I'm trying to
> > access via Lynx. Is there a way I can get Javascript working in Lynx,
> > presuming that's the actual culprit? Help is appreciated, thanks in
> advance.
>
> No, AFAIK there's no JavaScript support in Lynx.
>
> But you could use the browser on your remote computer to access the
> router's web interface via a ssh tunnel. I. e. if the router is
> accessible from your server via, say, 192.168.0.1 do something like
> ssh -L 8000:192.168.0.1:80 [ip or name of server]
> and enter
> http://localhost:8000
> in the address bar of the browser on machine you ssh'ing from.
> You may, of course, chose the local port (8000 in the above example) to
> your liking. It should be greater than 1024, though, since you would
> need root privileges otherwise.
>
> Regards
>  mks
>
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I am unsure but this might help:
http://links.twibright.com/features.php

It's links and it claims to have JavaScript support but I don't know if
that's in text mode or graphics mode.


Regards,

Brie Gordon

http://granite.sru.edu/~bag6849/index.html
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