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Dear lynx experts:

I am invoking the following command from a PPP script:

  lynx -auth=${ID}:${PASSWD} -source -post_data ${URL}

where URL is of the form <http address>/<x-www-url-encoded post data>

I am having two problems:

*  Since PPP has all file descriptors set to null, and I think that 
is what is causing the following error message:

  Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position 
the cursor.

Lynx then quits.  When I run the script manually, everything works 
fine.  How can disable lynx's efforts to manipulate the 
(non-existant?) terminal?  Is lynx not the right program to use for 
my purpose?  I tried wget, but I couldn't get it to "POST" anything 
...

*  As the reader can see, my auth info is on the command line.  
While I am essentially the only user on my system, and the command 
is only alive for a few moments, the given invocation is still 
undesirable from a security standpoint.  I tried feeding the options 
and post data through STDIN, but lynx hangs because it does not 
receive an EOT (control-d) character.  How can I a, say, "echo" an 
EOT character?  Is there an ASCII code for it?  Should I feed the 
post data into a temp file, then 'cat' it?

I do not subscribe to the list, so CCs to my personal address 
(address@hidden) would be appreciated.  I apologize if these issues 
have been addressed before, but I could not find a solution in the 
archives.

Thank you.

Regards,

Sourav Mandal

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Sourav K. Mandal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics
http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/

"In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than
efflorescence of language. We must be simple, 
precise, terse."

                      -- Edgar Allan Poe, 
                         "The Poetic Principle"

        



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