Re: Re: lynx-dev Q: control lynx from C

[dickey]

> 
> Thanks for the pointers to wget and  libwww-perl kit, however, I guess there 
> are  
> things that are not covered (?) by this soft. I understand the basic idea of 
> the  
> recommended programs is to load to the site and get all from there including  
> subtrees. And do it once. But, suppose I have a site which provides 
> constantly 
> renewed info and this site is https: with login and password. So, I guess, to 
> login 
> their periodically with login/passw and read info is no good. Better would be 
> to login once and periodically read info. I supposed  the easiest solution 
> would be 
> to allow lynx to read the commands from stdin.  
>  
> For example, a similar in spirit feature is allowed in gnuplot - to plot 
> figures  
> with dynamically created data.  
> I wonder, is it difficult to realize this hack in lynx? 

it would be moderately ugly - there's some command-line stuff that's in
the way, and then the command-interface would have to be revised (this]
would be in the middle of the keymap stuff that we were discussing this
month).
   
> Meanwhile, thanks you all for the advice  
> - Rubin. 


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