Is there a text-based browser available for Linux (CentsOS) which I can use when I SSH to my server. I use CentOS release 5.5. My server do not have graphic interface.
It would be nice if it support JavaScript.
5 Answers
You can try
links http://www.example.com or lynx http://www.example.com
You can also try links -g to put it into "graphics" mode but I don't think this will work over SSH.
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Wow! It's wonderful. But I have small problem. I only can go into href links. I cannot submit form or press <input type="submit" buttons. Is there a way to press buttons or submit forms?– bmanNov 23, 2010 at 18:53
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Note that both of these are available in the CentOS base repo, so you just need to
yum installthem.– mattdmNov 23, 2010 at 19:00
If you install a X server such as Cygwin/X on your local machine then you can instruct your SSH client to enable X forwarding and run a graphical browser such as Firefox or Chrome if the xorg-x11-xauth package is installed on the server.
answered Nov 23, 2010 at 18:42
I find it convenient to set up socks forwarding using OpenSSH's -D $port option. Then use a firefox extension that does fine-grained proxy configuration (FoxyProxy IIRC), and tell it to tunnel some sites through the socks proxy at localhost:$port .
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I already do this using Putty Tunelling. But this is not exactly what I need. I actually want to surf web from inside the server not by tunneling. For example when I want to download file in the server (which I cannot download using wget command).– bmanNov 24, 2010 at 10:24