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Re: Where is Lynx?

On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 03:14 PM, Huyler, Christopher M wrote:

I can't see why Apple wouldn't include lynx, the text-base web browser with OSX.
What's more irritating is that they did supply Apache...and no one thought to test 'apachectl status' which uses lynx to test the state of the webserver. Is this a bug they plan to fix (or have already fixed, I'm running 10.2)?

MacOS X (client) does not encourage end users to dabble on the command line (they allow for it... but think grandma). MacOS X Server has it's own interface for checking the server.
I guess they figure that anyone savy enough to want to use apachectl would be savy enough to be able to get lynx (or links) from any of the usual sources (freshmeat.net, opendarwin ports, fink, etc). It compiles just fine.

I had to modify some of my own scripts to use curl, but I would think this would have been done for apache...or they would have just included lynx.

Just get lynx. This is the standard procedure on most os's (FreeBSD for example). In fact getting lynx (even if you have to ./configure/make/make install yourself) takes less UNIX savy then knowing you have to enable status and dealing with the security issues...

Karl Kuehn
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