Junkbuster/w3m [wasRe: Starting w3m: error]

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <pfeifferw tesionmail de>]

> On Sep 30, 2001, 13:48 (-0700) Meph Istopheles wrote:

>
> > ... ummh, if I want to see the beautiful ladies on the net I
> > still use Netscape (and hoping the Taliban from whereever they
> > live do not read this mail :)), just going away and making a
> > cup of coffee while the browser's loading the page (OK, this
> > was a joke ... )
>
>   For that matter, w3m lets you set any graphics app you have
> installed to let you see ~any~ pic on a page -- naked or
> otherwise;-).  It can be a drag to have to click the image & hit
> Sh-I, but it's a damn site faster than NS.
>
> > seriously: for pages where I do not need to see pictures I
> > mostly use lynx, links or w3m:
>
>   I've not used links, but have used lynx throughout the years
> either through telnet or before having w3m installed on a box
> without X.  But I much prefer w3m.  I use it daily & far more
> often than any of the gui browsers I have installed.
>
> > By the way, for the folks using the Junkbuster Proxy with their
> > browser: it didn't work with w3m with localhost:8000 on my
> > machine, instead I had to write http://localhost:8000/
>
>   Can't imagine junkbuster would really be necessary with w3m,
> but I suppose there's much more to it than I know, as I've never
> really used it.  How does it render w3m pages differently than
> without it?

Rendering: I saw no difference (if you mean with 'rendering' simply how
the page is looking like) ... I just saw one URL with w3m twice, the first
time connected to Junkbuster, the second time not connected to it ... and
I didn't see any difference ... maybe it took 2 seconds more to load the
page with Junkbuster ... but I'm not sure about that, because I saw the
pages with resp. without Junkbuster not at the same time ..

... the point is: if I use many different browsers with different config
options I only have to connect them all to the locally installed
Junkbuster to manage cookie, referer or similar header-stuff the browser
is sending away, in one single place, that is Junkbuster...

Junkbuster even can send cookies (called 'wafers') to sites the user's
browser is accessing .. more on Junkbuster here:
http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/ijbfaq.html

Junkbuster IIRC is free and a command line/text tool ...

Regards

Wolfgang


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>   Meph
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