Hi Josh, On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 13:48, Joshua Legbandt wrote: > > > try: > > > wget -U 'Lynx/2.8.4' --no-parent > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34978-2003Aug23.html > > > > > > or > > > wget -U 'Lynx/2.8.4' > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34978-2003Aug23?language=printer > > > > > The second statement (ending in =printer) should grab the entire article > as html formatted text, at least it did for me... note that the url's > are slightly different. The second statement above works for me, 2 pages downloaded. The 1st statement only downloaded one page, the 1st page > > What will be the syntax 'Lynx/2.8.4' used for? > > $ rpm -q lynx > > lynx-2.8.5-7 > > > the -U option allows you to specify a user-agent string. This string is > used by the http server to to differentiate one browser from another. I > specified lynx version 2.8.4, it really doesn't matter what version you > specify as long is it works. The string 'Lynx/2.8.4' happened to show up > in the logs of one of my websites, so I used that. Noted with thanks B.Regards Stephen To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
