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

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Post by vel0city »

tombh wrote: post #52
theamk wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am fairly sure that both linx and lynx work with modern SSL. In fact, just checked on Ubuntu 16.04 -- both links (2.12) and lynx (2.8.9...) work fine with https://google.com and https://news.ycombinator.com for example.

Do they support SNI? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527856

"Sorry, the latter piece of the patch does indeed appear to call the NSS SSL_SetURL which should trigger the SNI."

So, according to your own link, yes it should support SNI.

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

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Post by jasonkostempski »

katzgrau wrote: post #34

The nice thing about text based browsers is that you can use them at work and everyone thinks you're cranking code but you're really just on HN

Except the network admin that makes the hush-hush employee website usage reports for the boss.

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

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Post by tombh »

themodelplumber wrote: post #56
tombh wrote: post #2

Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…

Charge for plugins? For example, user macros, user styles, integration of other apps, advanced bookmarks, etc. Sell merch, create your own awards for lo-fi websites and charge people to nominate their sites. Hope it works out for you!

Loads of ideas! So well first I need to identify what people want and are willing to pay for.

I like the awards for lo-fi websites, I could have a showcase section of the website.

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

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Post by tombh »

genpfault wrote: post #10

> Browsh consists of a minimal Golang CLI client and a browser webextension. Most of the work is done by the webextension. When the CLI starts, it looks for a compatible browser (currently only Firefox) and starts it in headless mode. Once the browser has started it opens a remote debugging connection and installs the extension. So a browser wrapper .

Arguably you could say the same about Opera's "wrapping" of the Chrome libs.

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

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Post by tombh »

madmax96 wrote: post #63

Awesome software, this is totally something I could see myself use regularly. Heads up: on my Mac, browsh isn't properly resetting the tty when it crashes.

Yes, sorry about that. I'm still getting used to Golang. So I need to consistently catch panics and I ensure the right ANSI escape sequence gets sent to the terminal before it finally exits.
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