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LYNX-DEV Lynx as interim step in doing a web page..
From: |
Matt Ackeret |
Subject: |
LYNX-DEV Lynx as interim step in doing a web page.. |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Dec 1997 12:01:52 -0800 (PST) |
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Al Gilman wrote:
>to follow up on what Willem van de Mortel said:
>
>> Can you tell me how i can fill in a form with lynx and send it
>> automaticly?
>
>There is a little-documented function which operates off two
>command-line options known as -post_data and -get_data. For one
>working application of these see
>
> LYNX-DEV Re: -post_data
> http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month1097/msg00690.html
Jeez, does this mean I could use Lynx as a part of a web page idea I want to
do?
In other words, instead of using Perl to be the "browser" I could use
Lynx to do it (which would be easier since it'd handle the cookie stuff
automagically) and then just parse the *output* with some Perl code?
This is probably a very very very bad idea (huge waste of resources), but
for some reason it still seems kinda neat. (I like brute force/Gilligan's
Island style solutions sometimes..) But I won't actually use it unless
someone says it's not as bad as writing custom Perl to do the same thing.