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Re: [Lynx-dev] file extensions


From: Thorsten Glaser
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] file extensions
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:01:17 +0000 (UTC)

Thomas Dickey dixit:

>On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:14:30PM +0100, Andrew Hey wrote:
>> Hi, i want to use lynx on my home machine so i can ssh into it from work
>> and use rtorrent. I have a file which works with firefox that passes
>> the .torrent file into a directory where rtorrent picks it up. Can i do
>> the same with lynx?
>> 
>> eg lynx > my script > rtorrent = happy days
>
>If you can access it with HTTP, probably.  I only see some comments
>about ".torrent" containing a URL, but not what type it is, nor
>whether the .torrent file itself is accessed via HTTP.

rtorrent can download the files itself. (Note that some BitTorrent sites
require cookies for authentification though; I'm using lynx to download
these then, store them in a temp dir, and pass the local path of the temp
dir to rtorrent.)

//mirabile
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