Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 12:56:08 -0700 (PDT) From: <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Shaun <shaun@thecore.com> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, Kit Mitchell <kit@hypostasis.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron and Lynx Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905231254520.32075-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905230952340.21975-100000@thecore.com>
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If I were you, I'd ditch the Lynx approach and use lwp-request from the
libwww Perl module.
NAME
lwp-request, GET, HEAD, POST - Simple WWW user agent
SYNOPSIS
lwp-request [-aeEdvhx] [-m method] [-b <base URL>] [-t <timeout>]
[-i <if-modified-since>] [-c <content-type>] [-C
<credentials>]
[-p <proxy-url>] [-o <format>] <url>...
I've used it to good effect in similar situations.
---
tani hosokawa
river styx internet
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Shaun wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> > > Exiting via interrupt: 15
> >
> > Any idea where lynx could be getting that from? What could be sending
> > lynx a SIGTERM while it's doing it's stuff? That could well be the
> > problem.
>
> I have a different problem with lynx that is producing the exact
> same error message. I posted a question to the "lynx-dev@sig.net"
> mailing list about a week ago and got zero responses. Below is a
> copy of my original question to them.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> I am attempting to automate some alpha pages to my beeper via a
> cgi-bin app the beeper vendor has online. I wrote a little shell
> script that looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> echo "PIN=5551212&MSSG=$1" > /tmp/page
> echo '---' >> /tmp/page
> #
> lynx -post_data < /tmp/page http://www.pagercom.com/cgi-bin/wwwpage.exe
>
> Here's the problem...This works great using version 2.7.1 of lynx,
> which I have on one of my systems (luckily)...but it doesn't work
> using version 2.8.1rel1 of lynx on another system I have here. Now
> I originally had the lynx call looking like this:
>
> lynx -post_data http://www.pagercom.com/cgi-bin/wwwpage.exe < /tmp/page
>
> until I saw a message in the lynx mailing archives that suggested the
> URL last on the cmdline for another problem involving -get_data, so
> I figured, why not give it a shot. But either way fails with this
> error message:
>
> Exiting via interrupt: 15
>
> lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.pagercom.com/cgi-bin/wwwpage.exe
>
> The two systems are both running FreeBSD if that helps at all.
>
> Anyone have a clue why the newer version of lynx barfs on this?
> Is there a better method to get this to work? Should this work?
>
> P.S. The URL in the above examples is ficticious.
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