# Is there a Unix text-based browser I can use on my hosting p

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**Created:** [July 1, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-unix-text-based-browser-i-can-use-on-my-hosting-p/108266 "2007-07-01T10:51:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-unix-text-based-browser-i-can-use-on-my-hosting-p/108266/1 "2007-07-01T10:51:58Z")

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Hi,

Is there a Unix text-based browser I can use on my hosting providers  
box?  
That is from my production site (Dreamhost) I could emulate a browser  
call  
to my application in text form?

The main reason is I want to test initial response time from my  
application,  
but discount the network lag. I’m noticing that the first http hit to  
my  
application (if there has been a break in traffic to the RoR app) takes  
several seconds to come back (~10-20 seconds) but then subsequently  
seems  
ok.

Tks

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-unix-text-based-browser-i-can-use-on-my-hosting-p/108266/2 "2007-07-01T12:40:17Z")

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I’ve used one called Lynx

> **[Lynx Information](http://lynx.browser.org/)**
>
> Index of Information resources about the Lynx browser for the World Wide Web

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-unix-text-based-browser-i-can-use-on-my-hosting-p/108266/3 "2007-07-01T13:28:28Z")

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w3m works good as well. (and it’s japan-made if it makes u feel more  
homey while working on the japan-made ruby) 🙂

[http://w3m.sourceforge.net/](http://w3m.sourceforge.net/)

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-unix-text-based-browser-i-can-use-on-my-hosting-p/108266/4 "2007-07-01T15:14:24Z")

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On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 01:28:28PM +0200, Shai R. wrote:

> w3m works good as well. (and it’s japan-made if it makes u feel more  
> homey while working on the japan-made ruby) 🙂
> 
> [http://w3m.sourceforge.net/](http://w3m.sourceforge.net/)

I don’t know if this is built into w3m or if it’s an extension packaged  
up  
by a Debian developer, but on my Debian boxes I have the w3m-img package  
installed. As long as I am using an xterm (doesn’t work on Apple’s  
Terminal.app, don’t know about other terminal emulators), I can run w3m  
and  
it displays images within the xterm. I don’t know how it’s done, but  
it’s  
quite nice.

–Greg

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**Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-unix-text-based-browser-i-can-use-on-my-hosting-p/108266/5 "2007-07-01T14:45:20Z")

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Em Domingo 01 Julho 2007 07:40, David F. escreveu:

> I’ve used one called Lynx
> 
> [http://lynx.browser.org/](http://lynx.browser.org/)

Links, Links2, Elinks.

## HTH,

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