Re: lynx-dev Re: LYNX: how to GENERATE a url?

[David Combs]

Looks neat -- not that I fully understand it.

If you could add some more explanation and hand-holding,
then it could be added to a "tricks and techniques with
lynx".

Thanks for the effort already expended!

David




On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 06:34:37PM -0700, Michael Warner wrote:
> On or about 14 Jul, 1999, address@hidden
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > In a recent note, David Combs said:
> > 
> > > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:45:17 -0700 (PDT)
> > > 
> > >      http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/07/14/index.html
> > > 
> > > But it looks like you could COMPUTE that string, with the
> > > How?  Any ideas?
> > > 
> > (Answering out of context) How about:
> > 
> >     lynx `date +http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/%Y/%m/%d/index.html`
> 
> ...and for just a little more convenience, put that line in
> a shell script, stick an
> 
> EXTERNAL:todayscs:${HOME}/bin/scripts/lxdate.sh %s:TRUE
> 
> line in your lynx.cfg, and a
> 
> <a href="todayscs://foo/">CSMonitor for today</a>
> 
> line in a bookmark file.  Hit '.' .  Starts a new lynx on
> the desired page.  When you quit the new lynx, you're back
> where you started.
> 
> Note 1.  The %s parameter in the EXTERNAL line isn't used,
> so I assume you could leave it out, but I didn't try it that
> way.
> 
> Note 2.  How much of a URL is needed in an anchor for EXTERN
> to recognize it?  Would just href="todayscs" work, or is a
> dummy host required, or something in between?  It works as
> above, but I didn't try for a minimal format.
> 
> Note 3.  Probably more elegantly done with LYNXCGI or
> somesuch, but I've never gotten around to investigating that
> stuff (yet).
> 
> -- 
> Michael Warner
> <address@hidden>