[j-nsp] out-lynxed

[Jared Mauch]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:11:51PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> often, i operate remotely, and hence can not do a lot of tricks
> using datacenter, i.e. well-connected, hosts.
> 
>   o some router i want to upgrade is in a remote pop
> 
>   o i am personally on a dsl line (read "slow") a few thousand
>     kilometers away on hawaii
> 
>   o so i don't want to use galeon/mozilla to download the image
>     to my desk/laptop to then push it back over the same dsl
>     line to the router
> 
>   o there are perfectly nice headless freebsd boxes right next
>     to the router, with gige to multiple stm-Xs to the net.
> 
>   o so i run lynx on one of those boxes to fetch the software
>     from your site
> 
> except i can no longer do this.  and, in case 2004-0912-0025,
> jtac tells me that "IT says we do not support Lynx. All our
> servers use standard coded browsers and that is all they will
> support now. Sorry for the inconvenience."
> 
> how do others work in this kind of situation?  any trix?

	curl w/ ssl libs should work, or wget too.

	i've been talking to Cisco about this same issue as well.

	Both vendors seem to not care about those that don't
have a FE to their desktop from a GE/ds3 or higher speed link.. or at
least that is the impression they continue to offer via support
channels.

	(same goes for supporting industry standard compliant web
browsers eg: lynx/links, etc..) on their websites.

	- jared

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