Re: [Lynx-dev] Getting the HTML source of currently viewed page without reloading

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, address@hidden wrote:

> > > > > 20070120 11:33 -0700, Kelly Jones >>>>
> How do I get the HTML source of the page Lynx is currently viewing
> *without* reloading the page? The page I'm viewing is sensitive to
> reloads (for example, it's a "view once" page that has been deleted
> from the server and will give me a "404 File Not Found" if I try to
> reload it).
> <<<<<<<<
> Maybe it works to always download the page, by making sure that its URL
> is in a bookmark file or other local file that Lynx loads, and from that
> entering DOWNLOAD, by default "d", to a friendly directory (from which
> loading it into Lynx for looking at is easy), or maybe your Lynx, too,
> has the download option "View temporary file", and throgh that looking
> at it.
>
> You are thus stuck with files that maybe you not wish to keep, but to me
> this, if it works, seems easier than looking for Lynx s temporary files.
>
> Is there a command-line option for downloading, and not forthwith rendering
> and showing, an HTML-page?

The -source option does this.

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