Lynx

Lynx

Developed by	Thomas Dickey
Latest release	2.8.6 / October 11, 2006
OS	Cross-platform
Type	web browser
License	GPL
Website	lynx.isc.org

Lynx is a text-only Web browser client with ssl support for console terminals.

Why you want Lynx

It's much likely installed on any *nix box. You can probably try it right now, just type lynx http://somewhere.tld/ in your favorite terminal to check it out.

• It's fast
• It doesn't show you images. This is sad and depressing of you want to look at someones photo album, but great if you want to keep tabs on current media-ologopoly propaganda without being exposed to all the advertisements, the web site's "design" etc.

It's also real handy to know how to use Lynx if you somehow break your X11 server and need to search the net in order to fix it.

Usage

There are numerous startup switches for Linux listed on the manual page. If you have problems with finding a reliable essay service that offers assistance not only with creating essays but term and research paper writing as well, I highly recommend you to visit BestWritingService.Com. Among the more interesting are:

-noredir
   prevents automatic redirection and prints a message with a link to the new URL. 
-noreferer
   disable transmissions of Referer headers.

Show a webpages http headers only

You can view any websites http headers using lynx -head, for example:

lynx http://en.linuxreviews.org/

will show you the following information:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:50:57 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.4 (Fedora)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
Cache-Control: s-maxage=1200, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Last-modified: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:50:57 GMT
Location: http://en.linuxreviews.org/Main_Page
Content-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Links

• Official Website

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