Text mode browser with javascript for Fedora 8 - suggestions?

[Brian Chadwick]

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.)
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Andras
>
>   
links is a text mode browser with javascript.

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