Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

Post by tombh » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 5:17 AM UTC

snarfy wrote: post #319

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That's essentially what https://text.brow.sh is already doing right? Eg; `curl https://text.brow.sh/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17... | grep snarfy`

It's close, but it doesn't actually output the escape codes. It would be cool if there were different formats besides text and html. Maybe vt100.brow.sh, ansi.brow.sh, etc. That way when I curl it from a terminal it renders like the actual terminal client. Add terms that commercial use of the site requires an account setup and some pricing info. They can always host it themselves, but like many things, most people wo…

Post by tombh » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 5:30 AM UTC

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Browsh's raison d'etre is really about saving bandwidth. I first had the problem of bandwidth whilst living in Ladakh in Northern India, where I simply could not use the modern web. I expect Browsh not to be run on the same machine as the user, instead it runs somewhere where there is good internet and the user then accesses its output via either SSH/Mosh or the HTML service. Linking to FF/Chrome's libs is certainly…

Did Links/eLinks/Lynx not provide a better benefit in terms of bandwidth? It seems like trying to process it the way you're doing would lead to more overall load, rather than less.

Post by josh921 » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 3:14 PM UTC

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What you need to know about Tor is that the network consists of clients and relays. Clients are mostly users with browsers. Many of which disable JS, because JS can de-anonymize sometimes. This breaks some websites. Previously I could not visit CNN.com via a JS-disabled Tor browser, but now I can type https://html.brow.sh/https://edition.cnn.com/ and Viola! (Well, it's still a little crippled but much better than a b…

Ok great, well I posted over at r/tor, see what they say: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/8y6z0m/browsh_html_ser...

Post by tombh » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 5:04 AM UTC

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I've thought of that too. The trouble is that Browsh's text renderer is more of a science than an art. It's quite hard to actually get a guarantee of the same text twice, which is a pretty important condition of testing. But yes, I'd love for Browsh to be used in such a way!

> more of a science than an art. Given the rest of your sentence, I think you mean the opposite.

Post by tombh » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 12:58 PM UTC

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Does that look related to this? https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/58

Not at all. Here's the error in firefox, check your intermediate certificates: html.brow.sh uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. The server might not be sending the appropriate intermediate certificates. An additional root certificate may need to be imported. Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER