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Re: lynx-dev giving the current URL to an external program?


From: clemensF
Subject: Re: lynx-dev giving the current URL to an external program?
Date: 13 Apr 2002 17:14:38 +0200

> address@hidden:

> I'm not sure of the language here.  Does "external-viewer mechanism"
> refer to (or include) viewers defined in the .mailcap file?  I've
> long wished that lynx spawning a viewer would set all the environment
> variables set by metamail spawning the same viewer (or merely spawn
> metamail and let it do the dirty work).  This would require that
> lynx pass metamail on stdin the full HTTP reply: headers plus body.
> I know; I'll be invited to write the code.  When I have time ...

that could be done with a wrapper, where the remore servers reply could be
fetched by netcat, tcpclient etc.

-- 
clemens fischer

"Be careful not to step in the Microsoft!"  -- John Denker

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