Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net> wrote:
Some of us still use it, but we tend not to recommend it to anyone - it has become fairly obscure and, to be honest, lots of webpages suck pretty hard when viewed through lynx. I find it particularly handy though as a route around some firewalls. If I find myself on a machine where HTTP requests are filtered or published, I can ssh to a machine where they're not and use lynx from there.
Or, slightly more complicated and much more flexible, tunnel a port on the local machine to a public proxy (or one that you're running yourself) outside the firewall, then direct your browser to use that port as its proxy. Of course, the best way of getting around the firewall problem is to tunnel a PPP session over SSH and give youself an entirely new network interface that acts like it's outside the firewall. With *IX, this is a trivial application of PPPd. Surprisingly enugh, the AOL client is the easiest and cheapest way I've found to do this in Windows. -- Riad Wahby rsw@mit.edu MIT VI-2/A 2002