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Provided by: links_2.12-1_amd64 bug

NAME

       links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser

SYNOPSIS

       links [options] URL

DESCRIPTION

       links  is  a  text  mode  WWW browser with ncurses interface, supporting colors, correct table rendering,
       background downloading, menu driven configuration interface and slim code.

       Frames are supported. You can have different file formats associated with external viewers.  mailto:  and
       telnet: are supported via external clients.

       links can handle local (file://) or remote (http:// or ftp://) URLs.

OPTIONS

       Most  options  can  be set in the user interface or config file, so usually you do not need to care about
       them.

       -help  Print a help screen

       -version
              Prints the links version number and exit.

       -lookup <hostname>
              Does name lookup, like command "host".

       -force-html
              Treat files with unknown type as html rather than text.  (can be toggled with '\' key)

       -source <url>
              Write unformatted data stream to stdout.

       -dump <url>
              Write formatted document to stdout.

       -width <number>
              For dump, document will be formatted to this screen width (but it can still  exceed  it  if  lines
              can't be broken).

       -codepage <codepage>
              For dump, convert output to specified character set -- for example iso-8859-2, windows-1250.

       -anonymous
              Restrict  links so that it can run on an anonymous account.  No local file browsing. No downloads.
              Executing of viewers is allowed, but user can't add or modify entries in association table.

       -no-connect
              Runs links as a separate instance - instead of connecting to existing instance.

       -download-dir <path>
              Default download directory.  (default: actual dir)

       -language <language>
              Set user interface language.

       -max-connections <max>
              Maximum number of concurrent connections.  (default: 10)

       -max-connections-to-host <max>
              Maximum number of concurrent connection to a given host.  (default: 2)

       -retries <retry>
              Number of retries.  (default: 3)

       -receive-timeout <sec>
              Timeout on receive.  (default: 120)

       -unrestartable-receive-timeout <sec>
              Timeout on non restartable connections.  (default: 600)

       -bind-address <ip address>
              Use a specific local IP address.

       -bind-address-ipv6 <ipv6 address>
              Use a specific local IPv6 address.

       -no-libevent
              Don't use libevent library.

       -no-openmp
              Don't use OpenMP.

       -async-dns <0>/<1>
              Asynchronous DNS resolver on(1)/off(0).

       -download-utime <0>/<1>
              Set time of downloaded files to last modification time reported by server.

       -format-cache-size <num>
              Number of formatted document pages cached.  (default: 5)

       -memory-cache-size <bytes>
              Cache memory in bytes.  (default: 1048576)

       -image-cache-size <bytes>
              Cache memory in bytes.  (default: 1048576)

       -font-cache-size <bytes>
              Cache memory in bytes.  (default: 2097152)

       -aggressive-cache <0>/<1>
              Always cache everything regardless of server's caching recomendations.  Many servers deny  caching
              even if their content is not changing just to get more hits and more money from ads.

       -address-preference <0>/<1>/<2>/<3>/<4>
              (default  0)  0 - use system default.  1 - prefer IPv4.  2 - prefer IPv6.  3 - use only IPv4.  4 -
              use only IPv6.

       -http-proxy <host:port>
              Host and port number of the HTTP proxy, or blank.  (default: blank)

       -ftp-proxy <host:port>
              Host and port number of the FTP proxy, or blank.  (default: blank)

       -https-proxy <host:port>
              Host and port number of the HTTPS proxy, or blank.  (default: blank)

       -socks-proxy <user@host:port>
              Userid, host and port of Socks4a, or blank.  (default: blank)

       -append-text-to-dns-lookups <text>
              Append text to dns lookups. It is useful for specifying fixed tor exit node.  (default: blank)

       -only-proxies <0>/<1>
              "1" causes that Links won't initiate any non-proxy connection.  It  is  useful  for  anonymization
              with tor or similar networks.

       -ssl.certificates <0>/<1>/<2>
              (default  1) 0 - ignore invalid certificate.  1 - warn on invalid certificate.  2 - reject invalid
              certificate.

       -ssl.client-cert-key <filename>
              Name of the PEM encoded file with the user private key for client certificate authentication.

       -ssl.client-cert-crt <filename>
              Name of the PEM encoded file with the user certificate for client certificate authentication.

       -ssl.client-cert-password <text>
              Password for the user private key.

       -http-bugs.http10 <0>/<1>
              (default 0) "1" forces using only HTTP/1.0 protocol. (useful for buggy servers that  claim  to  be
              HTTP/1.1 compliant but are not) "0" enables using both HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.

       -http-bugs.allow-blacklist <0>/<1>
              (default  1)  "1" defaults to using list of servers that have broken HTTP/1.1 support.  When links
              finds such server, it will retry the request with HTTP/1.0.

       -http-bugs.bug-302-redirect <0>/<1>
              (default 1) Process 302 redirect in a way that is incompatible with RFC1945 and RFC2068,  but  the
              same as Netscape and MSIE. Many pages depend on it.

       -http-bugs.bug-post-no-keepalive <0>/<1>
              (default 0) No keepalive connection after post requests. For some buggy servers.

       -http-bugs.bug-no-accept-charset <0>/<1>
              (default  0)  Do not send Accept-Charset field of HTTP header. Because it is too long some servers
              will deny the request. Other servers will convert content to plain ascii  when  Accept-Charset  is
              missing.

       -http-bugs.no-compression <0>/<1>
              (default  0)  "1"  causes  that  links won't advertise HTTP compression support (but it will still
              accept compressed data). Use it when you communicate  with  server  that  has  broken  compression
              support.

       -http-bugs.retry-internal-errors <0>/<1>
              (default 0) Retry on internal server errors (50x).

       -http.fake-firefox <0>/<1>
              (default 0) Fake that the browser is Firefox in the HTTP header.

       -http.do-not-track <0>/<1>
              (default 0) Send "do not track" request in the HTTP header.

       -http.referer <0>/<1>/<2>/<3>/<4>
              (default  0)  0  -  do  not  send  referer.  1 - send the requested URL as referer.  2 - send fake
              referer.  3 - send real referer.  4 - send real referer only to the same server.

       -http.fake-referer <string>
              Fake referer value.

       -http.fake-user-agent <string>
              Fake user agent value.

       -http.extra-header <string>
              Extra string added to HTTP header.

       -ftp.anonymous-password <string>
              Password for anonymous ftp access.

       -ftp.use-passive <0>/<1>
              Use ftp PASV command to bypass firewalls.

       -ftp.use-erpt-epsv <0>/<1>
              Use EPRT and EPSV commands instead of PORT and PASV.

       -ftp.fast <0>/<1>
              Send more ftp commands simultaneously. Faster response when browsing ftp directories,  but  it  is
              incompatible with RFC and some servers don't like it.

       -ftp.set-iptos <0>/<1>
              Set IP Type-of-service to high throughput on ftp connections.

       -smb.allow-hyperlinks-to-smb <0>/<1>
              Allow hyperlinks to SMB protocol.  Disabling this improves security, because internet sites cannot
              exploit possible bugs in the SMB client.

       -menu-font-size <size>
              Size of font in menu.

       -menu-background-color 0xRRGGBB
              Set menu background color in graphics mode. RRGGBB are hex.

       -menu-foreground-color 0xRRGGBB
              Set menu foreground color in graphics mode. RRGGBB are hex.

       -scroll-bar-area-color 0xRRGGBB
              Set color of scroll bar area. RRGGBB are hex.

       -scroll-bar-bar-color 0xRRGGBB
              Set color of scroll bar. RRGGBB are hex.

       -scroll-bar-frame-color 0xRRGGBB
              Set color of scroll bar frame. RRGGBB are hex.

       -bookmarks-file <file>
              File to store bookmarks.

       -bookmarks-codepage <codepage>
              Character set of bookmarks file.

       -save-url-history <0>/<1>
              Save URL history on exit.

       -display-red-gamma <fp-value>
              Red gamma of display. (default 2.2)

       -display-green-gamma <fp-value>
              Green gamma of display. (default 2.2)

       -display-blue-gamma <fp-value>
              Blue gamma of display. (default 2.2)

       -user-gamma <fp-value>
              Additional gamma. (default 1)

       -bfu-aspect <fp-value>
              Display aspect ration.

       -dither-letters <0>/<1>
              Do letter dithering.

       -dither-images <0>/<1>
              Do image dithering.

       -display-optimize <0>/<1>/<2>
              Optimize for CRT (0), LCD RGB (1), LCD BGR (2).

       -gamma-correction <0>/<1>/<2>
              Type of gamma correction: (default 2) 0 - 8-bit (fast).  1 - 16-bit  (slow).   2  -  automatically
              detect according to speed of FPU.

       -overwrite-instead-of-scroll <0>/<1>
              Overwrite the screen instead of scrolling it (valid for svgalib and framebuffer).  Overwriting may
              or may not be faster, depending on hardware.

       -html-assume-codepage <codepage>
              Use the given codepage when the webpage did not specify its codepage. (default: ISO 8859-1)

       -html-hard-assume <0>/<1>
              Use always character set from "-html-assume-codepage" no matter what server sent.

       -html-tables <0>/<1>
              Render tables. (0) causes tables being rendered like in lynx.

       -html-frames <0>/<1>
              Render frames. (0) causes frames  rendered like in lynx.

       -html-break-long-lines <0>/<1>
              Break long lines in <pre> sections.

       -html-images <0>/<1>
              Display links to unnamed images as [IMG]

       -html-image-names <0>/<1>
              Display filename of an image instead of [IMG].

       -html-display-images <0>/<1>
              Display images in graphics mode.

       -html-image-scale <percent>
              Scale images in graphics mode.

       -html-bare-image-autoscale <0>/<1>
              Autoscale images displayed in full screen.

       -html-numbered-links <0>/<1>
              Number links in text mode. Allow quick link selection by typing link number and enter.

       -html-table-order <0>/<1>
              In text mode, walk through table by rows (0) or columns (1).

       -html-auto-refresh <0>/<1>
              Process refresh to other page (1), or display link to that page (0).

       -html-target-in-new-window <0>/<1>
              Allow opening new windows from html.

       -html-margin <number of spaces>
              Margin in text mode.

       -html-user-font-size <size>
              Size of font on pages in graphics mode.

       -html-t-text-color <0>-<15>
              Text color in text mode.

       -html-t-link-color <0>-<15>
              Link color in text mode.

       -html-t-background-color <0>-<7>
              Background color in text mode.

       -html-t-ignore-document-color <0>/<1>
              Ignore colors specified in html document in text mode.

       -html-g-text-color 0xRRGGBB
              Text color in graphics mode.

       -html-g-link-color 0xRRGGBB
              Link color in graphics mode.

       -html-g-background-color 0xRRGGBB
              Background color in graphics mode.

       -html-g-ignore-document-color <0>/<1>
              Ignore colors specified in html document in graphics mode.

       More options can be seen with links -h

       The keys you may use while navigating are

       ESC    menu/escape

       F9     menu

       F10    file menu

       TAB    next frame

       PGDN   page down

       Space  page down

       PGUP   page up

       b      page up

       CursorDOWN
              next link/down

       CursorUP
              prev link/up

       INS    scroll up

       ^P     scroll up

       DEL    scroll down

       ^N     scroll down

       [      scroll left

       ]      scroll right

       HOME   home

       END    end of page

       CursorRIGHT
              enter link/press button

       ENTER  enter link/press button

       CursorLEFT
              go back

       d      download link

       /      search in the page

       ?      search back in the page

       n      find next match

       N      find next match backwards

       f      zoom actual frame

       ^R     reload page

       g      go to URL

       G      edit the current URL and goto the result

       ^G     edit the current link and goto the result

       s      bookmark manager

       q      quit, close window if more windows are open

       Q      quit without asking

       =      document information

       \      toggle HTML source/rendered view

EDITING KEYS

       The following keys can be used while editing a line/jumping to a URL:

       CursorRIGHT
              move right

       CursorLEFT
              move left

       HOME   jump at the beginning

       ^A     jump at the beginning

       END    jump at the end

       ^E     jump at the end

       ^X     cut to clipboard (text mode only)

       ^B     copy to clipboard

       ^INS   copy to clipboard

       ^V     paste from clipboard (text mode only)

       ENTER  enter line

       BACKSPACE
              delete back character

       ^H     delete back character

       DEL    delete character

       ^D     delete character

       ^U     delete from beginning of the line

       ^K     delete to the end of the line

       ^W     auto complete line

FILES

       ~/.links2/links.cfg
              Per‐user configfile, automatically created by links.

PLATFORMS

       links is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2, BeOS and Win32.

BUGS

       Can't connect to some FTP servers (Novell, NT). Connection stays in "Request sent" state.

       Frames don't work if there's more frames with same name. Turn them off in such case.

       You can't upload large files; it takes _lots_ of memory.

       You shouldn't press '^Z' when you are in a viewer

       Please report any other bugs you find to Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

LICENSE

       links is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  terms  of  the  GNU  General
       Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
       option) any later version.

AUTHOR

       links was written by Mikulas Patocka, Karel 'Clock' Kulhavy, Petr  'Brain'  Kulhavy,  and  Martin  'PerM'
       Pergel.  See file AUTHORS for a list of people contributing to this project.

       The homepage of links can be found at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links

       This manual page was written by Peter Gervai <grin@tolna.net>, using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown links
       fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Updated by Karel Kulhavy.

SEE ALSO

       lynx(1), w3m(1)

                                                    Aug, 2006                                           LINKS(1)