Web browser that works over SSH ???

FireRaven · 12-30-2006, 06:51 AM

hi.
are there any text-based or SSH compatible web browsers for linux out there?
by distro is centos but others i'm intrested in too...

namit · 12-30-2006, 07:07 AM

well if you login to your box threw ssh and then download lynx that should be what you need.

I think lynx is out there for most distribs

raskin · 12-30-2006, 07:24 AM

Links and elinks are better in my opinion. About ssh-compatibility: if you have X server running on client machine (there are even free ones for Windows..) and if you have X forwarding enabled in ssh client then - magic! - even graphical browser becomes ssh-compatible. It is eating bandwidth, though...

mjrclark · 12-30-2006, 09:19 AM

You can use an ssh tunnel with any browser and putty/ssh on the client... if all you need is secure browsing from a remote machine

namit · 12-30-2006, 09:50 AM

just setup https on whatever your accessing

FireRaven · 12-31-2006, 10:08 AM

ok so i found links / elinks to work fine.
lynx was also ok but doesn't render the page as pretty.
thanks guys

namit · 12-31-2006, 10:11 AM

yes lynx is very much a sprawl of text that it find and it just outputs it onto screen, but i am not looking for pretty.