2008/5/20 Default User <xyzzyx@sbcglobal.net>:
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> Hello!
>
> I would like to use lynx to manage my local small lan router.  I can
> manage a broadband modem that way.  But the router webpage expects to be
> managed by a graphical browser, so the initial control webpage just
> shows up as unintelligible garbage.
>
> Since I run command line only, I do not want to activate X, install a
> graphical browser, and run X, with all the overhead and security issues,
> just to manage a simple router.  Is there another way text-only way to
> accomplish this (ie, ssh etc.)?
>
> Thanks for any advice.

Since you apparently *require* a text-only browser, have you tried these:
ELinks
Links
w3m

Wikipedia also lists edbrowse, but it doesn't appear to be in ports,
so YMMV trying to get it to work on OpenBSD.

If you *don't* really *require* a text-only/console browser, ie. if
there is e.g. a chance to enable SSH on your modem (some of these run
Linux...), then you'll have to give more details.

Another solution that I could think of might be to use curl/wget to
fetch the pages you want, and then to write a program/shell script to
transmogrify the page to something you can use. Of course, in the
extreme this might require partially implementing an EMCAScript
interpreter -- assuming that that's what's really missing; not being
able to see the colourful images should not be much of an issue, but
most text-based browsers not grokking EMCAScript probably would be.

Hope this helps,
--ropers