Re: LYNX-DEV http programming

[Matt Ackeret]

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 address@hidden wrote:
>Well, I might get shot down in hot flames for asking this, but,
>lynx is a super browser.  I am very interested in writing a browser 
>myself.  Possibly with svgalib support.  Possibly under djgpp.  But I 
>would like to write a simple graphical browser without so many bells 
>and whistles as the normal ones, that is smaller than a meg.  I have 
>looked at the code to lynx, but it has certainly grown since I first 
>saw it many years ago.  Can anyone help me with info as to a location 
>for a library that can request html documents and images that 
>wouldn't be too complicated.  I am a C programmer, so it doesn't have 

Maybe I'm missing something, but you could start with the "libwww" stuff
in Perl.  It's not C, but as far as I understand, it is effectively
a "web browser" and you can use it to write scripts that do html stuff.

I think you can also hook it up with display code.