[YLUG] Lynx -source with a wait

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By coincidence I see a similar question with a couple of other tool 
suggestions here -

http://forums.contractoruk.com/threadedpost244067.html#post244067

aardvark llama wrote:
>> From: "Robert Hulme" <rob at robhulme.com> wrote:
>>> 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 ?
>> It's for a Nagios style "Does this service work at all? and if so is
>> it giving utter nonesense results?" type check.
> 
> Now for my first post for a while:
> 
> FWIW For this kind of stuff at I would tend towards wget. IME it is a 
> bit more flexible than lynx and can handle recursive queries, https, ssl 
> and cookies.
> 
> If you are simply after dirty output you can script netcat to dump raw 
> html to stdout as follows:
> 
> $ nc -v <ip address or url> 80 < get.txt
> 
> Where get.txt contains:
> 
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: <url of webservice>
> 
> 
> 
> (It is important to include a couple of returns in here.)
> 
> Alternatively there are some neat perl modules -- or 
> equivalent-scripting-langue-du-jour -- that will let you eat the html, 
> pull out the interesting lines and write it out in a nicely formatted 
> report.
> 
> Tarafurnoo,
> 
> Will
> 
> PS: If you want to debug this, try telnet. For example, to work out the 
> NAT/PAT IP address of a server when you only have telnet, I find
> $ telnet www.whatismyip.com 80
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.whatismyip.com
> 
> 
> 
> ^]
> Works when you scroll back to the <TITLE>WhatIsMyIP.com - <your IP 
> address></TITLE> line.
> 
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