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To: ropers <ropers@...>
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Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 4:09 pm

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 00:36 +0200, ropers wrote:


Thanks for the suggestions, but no luck.  Unfortunately, none of the
text browsers I tried (lynx, links, elinks, links+, w3m) worked.  

The router's internal webpage is <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML
4.0 TANSITIONAL//EN">.  It seems to require javascript (ECMAscript),
which may well be the problem.  

SSH to port 22 does not work (it just times out), and telnet replies
"connection refused".  

I am not up to compiling external applications; I try to stick with
what's in the OpenBSD packages collection.  

And of course, the manufacturer's website was absolutely clueless. 

So, it seems that I can either: 
1) just manage the router from another computer with another OS.
2) activate X on the OpenBSD computer and install a graphical browser.

If I choose option #2, what what graphical browser would have the least
overhead, and above all, do the least damage to my security?  

I know it's not OpenBSD's fault that the router's control webpage
requires javascript, but I am surprised that there doesn't seem to be a
simpler, less insecure alternative.  Oh, well - so much for
security . . .
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using lynx to manage router, Default User, (Tue May 20, 4:38 pm)
Re: using lynx to manage router, Default User, (Wed May 28, 11:20 pm)
Re: using lynx to manage router, ropers, (Tue May 20, 6:35 pm)
Re: using lynx to manage router, ropers, (Tue May 20, 6:36 pm)
Re: using lynx to manage router, Default User, (Thu May 22, 4:09 pm)
Re: using lynx to manage router, Ted Unangst, (Thu May 22, 8:44 pm)
Re: using lynx to manage router, Adam Jacob Muller, (Thu May 22, 9:53 pm)
Re: using lynx to manage router, Adam Jacob Muller, (Thu May 22, 6:30 pm)
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