Text mode browser with javascript for Fedora 8 - suggestions?

[Chris G]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:57:44PM +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 4/24/08, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > Are there any text mode browsers with javascript support in the Fedora
> > repositories?
> 
> I don't know of any such thing.
> 
> > It would be really useful to have such a beast for configuring my
> > router via an ssh login to my home system.  It would save opening up
> > the router's web interface to the outside world.
> 
> You don't need to. If you can ssh into your box, you can probably also
> do ssh -ND 3333 me at my.home.box
> 
> and then
> 
> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> (Connection) Settings ->
> Manual proxy configuration
> HTTP Proxy: localhost
> Port: 3333
> 
> in Firefox. (There's nothing special about port no. 3333.)
> 
That's another way to the same place that using an ssh tunnel gets you
too.  On balance I think the ssh tunnel is easier/cleaner but I'll
keep the proxy idea up my sleeve as well.


> After this, all FF requests will (seem to) originate from your home
> box.
> 
> Of course, if you're sitting at a machine with X on it, you can also
> just use the FF on your home box.
> 
Yes, I know, but it's horrendously slow if you do this.


> Something else you can perhaps do: I don't know about your router, but
> mine (Linksys WRT54GL) also can't be accessed without a JavaScript
> enabled browser. But, on closer inspection, it turned out that the JS
> is only there to scare you; by looking at what it did, it was easy to
> write a script that can be used to control the router from the
> commandline.
> 
My router has command line configuration anyway but it's not as user
friendly as the web interface.

-- 
Chris Green