Re: LYNX-DEV Sending active link/page URL to print/download ?

[Al Gilman]

  Subject: LYNX-DEV Sending active link/page URL to print/download ?
  From: address@hidden (JOHNLIM)
  
  I was wondering if Lynx has the ability to send the currently active link
  and/or currently loaded page URL to a command/file, similar to the way
  prints/downloads are handled ?
  
  What I'm trying to do is this - let's say while browsing I want to save
  a link on the current page. Rather than 'd'ownloading it and waiting for
  it to finish, I usually shell out and use webget (a nifty Perl script)
  manually.
  
  I was wondering if Lynx could forward URLs to a program (webget in this
  case) so I could stuff it in the background and continue browsing with
  Lynx ?
  
You might want to look into what a proxy can do for you.  At the
very least, if you run a caching proxy, the case when what you
want to file is the _current document_ is covered.  Any page you
have looked at in the session, probably.

May I have a reference for the webget you use?

You might be a customer for screen.

--
Al Gilman

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