Re: Where is Lynx?
Re: Where is Lynx?
- Subject: Re: Where is Lynx?
- From: Karl Kuehn <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:52:05 -0400
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
email@hidden
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