Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 08:21:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Brian Kim <briansan24@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Web browsing usage from base Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404030805150.80517@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgkRNAfJtZc%2BxcBSwuetjaQrC_-Y9kr9XYJ%2BW4%2B9bDzBxA@mail.gmail.com> References: <13492F6B-C667-4569-87D2-3F808AE7356D@gmail.com> <CAF6rxgkRNAfJtZc%2BxcBSwuetjaQrC_-Y9kr9XYJ%2BW4%2B9bDzBxA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 2 April 2014 09:02, Brian Kim <briansan24@gmail.com> wrote: >> Would anyone like to share their best approach to browsing the web only using utilities from a base install? > > $pkg install firefox > $firefox > > seems to work (provided X is running). fetch(1) was already mentioned. telnet(1) or nc(1) would allow interactive use, admittedly not conveniently (level: neckbeard). I can imagine a (terrible) text browser hacked together with fetch, sh, dialog, and grep/sed/awk to parse out links. But even full text browsers like lynx, links, and w3m are often useless due to the modern web's dependence on images, Javascript, and such. Incidentally, the issue of the base OS not having a text web browser has come up several times lately. I don't know if there's one suitable for import, but it's something to consider. Writing one using only the tools from base would be an interesting/horrifying experiment.
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