Terminal Web Browser
There are so many text browsers. Some of those are Links2, Lynx,w3m. You can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window like xterm, rxvt.
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Links2 is a web browser which can run in text as well as in graphics mode.It displays tables, frames, downloads on background, uses HTTP/1.1 keepalive connections. In graphics mode it displays PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and XBM pictures, runs external bindings on other types, and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming, 48-bit dithering, and gamma and aspect ratio correction.
w3m can be used as a text formatting tool also. Some of the robust set of features including:
- Frame and table rendering
- Read from standard input (lynx cannot do this very easily)
- Locally run cgi scripts to test html output (requires *no* webserver)
- small in memory footprint (and coincidentally quite fast)
- Keystroke compatible with lynx (but you can also customize the keybindings yourself)
- Colour
- SSL support thru the openssl library
- Cookie support