Re: lynx-dev Lynx and automatic retrieval of SSL page

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Giuseppe Marullo wrote:

> Hello to all,
> just subscribed, I am in a hurry and I had no time to
> lurk at the list so please don't flame me if this is
> answered elsewhere. I really searched the net but ...
> 
> I need to download pages that are after a form
> requesting a code.
> The pages are SSL encrypted and I succesfully used
> Lynx to autenticate, get the page that requests the
> additional code and I see the pages to download.
> I would like to achieve the same thing automagically
> using a script but I am unable to find a way to
> "inject" the keystrokes in Lynx. 
> Is there a way to "automate" lynx?

Yes (the current development version can record and playback keystrokes).
The 2.8.3 version would have to be run via 'expect'.
 
> The URL after the code submission looks the same so 
> I can't use the trick to submit it instead the
> starting one...
> 
> TIA,
> 
>        Giuseppe Marullo
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