[YLUG] Lynx -source with a wait

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Presumably this is to do some processing in a script?
how does the site do the refresh? is it in redirect headers or does a 
script do it ?

Stephen Patterson wrote:
> On 13 Jun 07, Robert Hulme (rob at robhulme.com) wrote:
>> A colleague at work is having a problem and I thought maybe someone
>> out there would have an idea of how to solve it.
>>
>> He wants to get the html of a page which is pretty easy to do in lynx
>> with the -source command.
>>
>> What makes this more tricky is that he wants to load a page which
>> refreshes once or more before displaying the actual page he wants the
>> data from (it's a biological service page, you get a "Please wait
>> calculating... type page first".
> 
> If he knows how the proper page is going to start he could repeatedly
> fetch & pause until the right content comes back by grepping the lynx
> --source output.
> 
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