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LINKS

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS NAVIGATION KEYS EDITING KEYS ENVIRONMENT FILES PLATFORMS BUGS LICENSE AUTHOR SEE ALSO

NAME

links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser

SYNOPSIS

links [options? URL

DESCRIPTION

links is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, correct table rendering, background downloading, menu driven configuration interface and slim code.

Frames are supported. You can have different file formats associated with external viewers. mailto: and telnet: are supported via external clients.

links can handle local (file://) or remote (http://, ftp:// or https:// if there's compiled-in SSL support) URLs.

OPTIONS

Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so usually you do not need to care about them.

-anonymous

Restrict links so that it can run on an anonymous account. No local file browsing. No downloads. Executing of viewers is allowed, but user can't add or modify entries in association table.

-assume-codepage

Use the given codepage when the webpage did not specify its codepage. (default: ISO 8859-1)

-async-dns

Asynchronous DNS resolver on(1)?/off(0). Default is on.

-base-session

Linkses are connecting together, forming sessions by default. Normally, there's only one session with number 0. In this way, you can make him to form more sessions at once. See also -no-connect option.

-download-dir

Default download directory. (default: actual dir)

-download-utime

Set time of download files on(1)?/off(0). Default is off.

-dump

Write a plain-text version of the given HTML document to stdout.

-fake-referer

Send always this HTTP referer. Has a mean only with -http-referer 3.

-format-cache-size

Number of formatted document pages cached. (default: 5)

-ftp.anonymous-password

Use this as the password for anonymous ftp sites.

-ftp-proxy

Host and port number of the FTP proxy, or blank. (default: blank)

-help

Print a help screen.

-http-bugs.http10

Turn use of HTTP/1.0 on(1)?/off(0). Default is off.

-http-bugs.allow-blacklist

Turn blacklist of buggy servers on(1)?/off(0). Default is on.

-http-bugs.bug-302-redirect

Turn broken redirect 302 (violates RFC, but compatible with Netscape) on(1)?/off(0). Default is off.

-http-bugs.bug_post-no-keepalive

Turn no keepalive connection after POST request (for some buggy PHP databases) on(1)?/off(0). Default is off.

-http-proxy

Host and port number of the HTTP proxy, or blank. (default: blank)

-http-referer

Turn sending of HTTP referer. Either never(0), true(1), same URL(2)? or fake(3)?. (default: none)

-language

Language to use in user interface.

-max-connections

Maximum number of concurrent connections. (default: 10)

-max-connections-to-host

Maximum number of concurrent connection to a given host. (default: 2)

-memory-cache-size

Cache memory in Kilobytes. (default: 1024)

-no-connect

Runs links as a separate instance - instead of connecting to existing instance. Prevents him to connecting to an existing session. See also -base-session option.

-receive-timeout

Timeout on receive. (default: 120)

-retries

Number of retries. (default: 3)

-source

Write the given HTML document in source form to stdout.

-unrestartable-receive-timeout

Timeout on non restartable connections. (default: 600)

-user-agent

Change the User Agent. That means identification string, which is sent to HTTP server, when a document is requested. Default is

-version

Print the links version number and exit.

NAVIGATION KEYS

You may optionally prefix each of this keys with a number, telling its repeat count (how much times to do it). You can also re-bind those keys. See linkskeys(5) for complete documentation about keybindings and more complete list of keys bound by default. The keys you may use for navigation are:

PGDN

page down

Space

page down

PGUP

page up

CursorDOWN

next link/down

CursorUP

prev link/up

^INS

copy to clipboard

INS

scroll up

DEL

scroll down

[[

scroll left

]

scroll right

HOME

home

END

end of page

CursorRIGHT

enter link/press button

ENTER

enter link/press button

CursorLEFT

go back

download link

edit textarea in external editor (broken)

search in the page

search back in the page

find next match

find next match backwards

zoom actual frame

reload page

go to URL

go to the current URL

add a new bookmark

bookmark manager

reload cookies from /.links/cookies

quit

document information

header information

toggle HTML source/rendered view

toggle display of images

TAB

next frame

ESC

menu/escape

F10

file menu

EDITING KEYS

The following keys can be used while editing a line/jumping to a URL:

CursorRIGHT

move right

CursorLEFT

move left

HOME

jump to the beginning

END

jump to the end

^INS

copy to clipboard

cut to clipboard

paste from clipboard

ENTER

enter line

BACKSPACE

delete back character

DEL

delete character

delete from beginning of the line

delete to the end of the line

auto complete line

ENVIRONMENT

CONFIG_DIR

The location of

WWW_HOME

Homepage location (as in lynx )

LINKS_XTERM

The command to run when selecting DISPLAY is defined (default

LINKS_TWTERM

The command to run when selecting TWDISPLAY is defined (default

SHELL

Used for

COMSPEC

Used for

FILES

/.links/links.cfg

Per-user config file, automatically created by links. Its format is same as the one of user.cfg.

/.links/html.cfg

Per-user config file, automatically created by links. It contains HTML rendering options. Its format is same as the one of user.cfg.

/.links/user.cfg

Per-user config file, not overwritten while saving links configuration. You can add your own options there (e.g. keybindings). Each line consists from option name (same as the command-line one, but without leading dash and with dashes converted to underscores), space, and its value, in quotes if it's a string. Lines which start with # are considered as comments and skipped.

/.links/bookmarks

Bookmarks file

/.links/cookies

Cookies file

/.links/links.his

Sites history file

/.links/socket

Internal links socket for communication between its instances.

PLATFORMS

links is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2, BeOS and RISC OS. Port for Win32 is in state of beta testing.

BUGS

Can't connect to some FTP servers (Novell, NT). Connection stays in

Frames don't work if there're more frames with same name. Turn them off in such case.

You can't upload large files; it takes lots of memory.

You shouldn't press '^Z' when you are in a viewer

Please report any other bugs you find to Mikulas Patocka or to links mailing list

LICENSE

links is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

AUTHOR

links was written by Mikulas Patocka See file AUTHORS in the source tree for a list of people contributing to this project.

The homepage of links can be found at __http://links.browser.org/__

This manual page was written by Peter Gervai links fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Contributions from Francis A. Holop. Extended, clarified and made more up-to-date by Petr Baudis