Re: Lynx -dump problems
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:12:07AM -0700, nate wrote:
> <quote who="Matthew Daubenspeck">
> > I have a php script that does some web database cleanup that I want lynx
> > to call once an hour, and am having problems making it work.
> >
> > Basically, all lynx has to do is use the -dump option, call the page and
> > the script does the rest.
> >
> > However, the script does not work. I had this once before and remember
> > fixing it by changing the term im the script (TERM=vt100??), but can't
> > remember exactly what I did. I have tried a few different methods and
> > none are working. The page, however, works if I manually enter it into a
> > standard browser...
>
> i've had this problem too. i think the older versions of
> lynx worked fine with just the variable set but the newer
> ones check the actual terminal(??) in any case i could not
> get this working with lynx so i switched to netcat. e.g. i have
> a shellscript that gets a stock quote from yahoo, and it looks
> like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> /bin/echo "GET /d/quotes.csv?s=$1&f=nl1d1t1c1vw&e=.csv" | /usr/bin/nc
> finance.yahoo.com 80
>
> which just dumps the output to standard out, much like lynx,
> however it does not do any kind of html rendering ...i'm not
> sure if the url your trying to get needs rendering or not.
I finally got it working. Just before the actual lynx line, I added
TERM=vt100 and it works perfectly.
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