On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, didier gaumet wrote:
Le 14/12/2017 à 09:56, Curt a écrit :
[...]
> Maybe some other kind soul (not that I am one of those) is both an
> elinks guru and a paypal client (if they aren't mutually exclusive
> categories) and he or she will pipe up here in this forum.
[...]
Curt's post reminded me that I do have a Paypal account and I have used
elinks from time to time in the past.
So I Installed elinks on my Debian strech.
In order to be as close as possible to the context of Karen, I launched
elinks from the second virtual terminal (not from a X11 terminal), with
elinks default settings.
My system is configured in french (France) and Unicode 8 bits:
fr_FR.UTF-8.
The paypal dot fr web page (I suppose it would the same with paypal dot
com) prompted me to connect and I was asked to enter a CAPTCHA code
(wich would have been displayed in an image in a graphic session) but
showed me an "Audio Button".
Pressing that "Audio Button" (I suppose this is its name because in
french it is called "bouton audio"), a panel proposed different options
and I pressed "Enter" to select "play" and the VLC media player played
an audio mp3 file spelling the code to enter.
I had to press "q" key to exit the VLC panel and the I could then
navigate on the paypal webpage to the "enter the hereupon code" zone to
type the code previously played.
I did not enter the code because the headphone volume was to feeble on
the console for me to properly recognise english letters spelled by a
synthetic voice, sorry :-(
To enable some interactive control (like making volume adjustments)
over the application that my text browser launches to play external
audio files, I put the following lines in my home directory's .mailcap
file:
$ grep '^audio' ~/.mailcap
audio/x-wav; vlc -I rc %s; nametemplate=%s.wav; needsterminal;
description="WAV Audio"
audio/mpeg; vlc -I rc %s; nametemplate=%s.mpg; needsterminal;
description="MPEG Audio"
audio/mpegurl; vlc -I rc %s; nametemplate=%s.m3u; needsterminal;
description="MPEG Audio URL"
audio/x-mp3; vlc -I rc %s; nametemplate=%s.mp3; needsterminal;
description="MPEG Audio"
audio/mpeg4; vlc -I rc %s; needsterminal; description="MPEG-4 Audio"
(The "-I rc" option string to vlc seems to be synonymous with "-I cli")
When the browser launches vlc, there is a command line interface (with
prompt '>') that understands commands like
help # view all available commands
[hint: there are many; use Shift+UpArrow to see what scrolled off the screen]
quit # quit vlc
repeat # toggle playing track over and over
loop # toggle playing playlist over and over; easier to type than
repeat
volume 300 # unsure what the scale is, but 256 seems to mean "100%"
pause # toggle pause state; paused/unpaused
play # resume playback
seek 150 # go to 150 second mark)
rate 0.5 # play at half-speed; only works reliably with local files
For example, the following session toggles looping on (default was
off), resumes playback (in case it had already ended), pauses
playback, sets volume to 300, resumes (unpauses) playback, and then
quits
VLC media player 2.2.7 Umbrella (revision 2.2.7-0-g6e32381286)
[various error messages snipped]
[some memory address] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console".
VLC media player 2.2.7 Umbrella
Command Line Interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
loop
play
pause
volume 300
pause
quit
Lynx consults mailcap. And, according to this manual page, so does
elinks:
Chapter 10. Managing External Viewers with Mailcap
http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/ch10.html