About:
Lynx is a fully-featured WWW client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, terminal emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other character-cell display). It will display HTML documents containing links to files on the local system, as well as files on remote systems running HTTP, HTTPS, gopher, FTP, WAIS, NNTP, finger, or cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via logins to telnet, tn3270, or rlogin accounts.

Release focus: N/A

Changes:
A modified check for empty news-posting to warn but allow user to override if it contains nonspace characters, new FTP_PASSIVE and CONNECT_TIMEOUT options in lynx.cfg, a new commandline option "connect_timeout" (not available for DOS port), removal of duplicate definitions of HT_NON_BREAK_SPACE and HT_EN_SPACE, leaving them in HTFont.h, no content submission of disabled form fields, new bindings for ^ and $ (like vi) to move the cursor to the first and last link on the current line, removal of --enable-kanji option, enabled routines to change kanji code which is used for overriding, removal of redundant/conflicting definitions of ON/OFF from HTVMS_WaisUI.h, and fixes for the K&R build on SunOS.

Author:
T.E.Dickey [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.54/10.00 (25 votes)

Homepage:
http://lynx.isc.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx2.8.6.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx2.8.6.tar.bz2
Zip:
http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx2-8-6.zip
Changelog:
http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx2-8-6/CHANGES
RPM package:
http://fr.rpmfind.net/[..]ery=lynx&submit=Search+...&system=&arch=
Debian package:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lynx-cur.html
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/[..]rts.cgi?query=lynx&stype=all&sektion=all
Demo site:
http://lynx.isc.org/release/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Console (Text Based) :: Curses
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		Freely Distributable, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.8.6	11-Oct-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	2.8.7dev.7	03-Aug-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.8.6	Major feature enhancements	11-Oct-2006 10:40
2.8.5	Major feature enhancements	05-Feb-2004 22:28
2.8.4	Major bugfixes	14-Aug-2001 06:18
2.8.4dev.16	N/A	02-Jan-2001 05:17
2.8.4 dev 7	N/A	04-Aug-2000 20:05
2.8.3rel.1	N/A	24-Apr-2000 16:14
2.8.3dev22	N/A	21-Mar-2000 17:46
2.8.3dev.21	N/A	10-Mar-2000 00:47
2.8.3dev20	N/A	26-Feb-2000 02:59
2.8.3.dev12	N/A	19-Oct-1999 14:43

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New lynx-cur packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jun 5th 2006 10:06 Debian: New lynx packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, May 28th 2006 13:17 Red Hat: Updated lynx package corrects a security flaw by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sat, Nov 12th 2005 10:50 Debian: New lynx packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Oct 27th 2005 04:26

Red Hat: Updated lynx package corrects a security flaw by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Oct 18th 2005 00:01 Red Hat: Updated lynx packages fix CRLF injection vulnerability by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Feb 12th 2003 13:28 Lightweight Web Browsers by Kamil Klimkiewicz , in Category Reviews Sat, Jan 18th 2003 00:00 Debian: New lynx packages fix CRLF injection by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Dec 12th 2002 22:10

 Comments

[»] One of the good ones
by Shane Mason - Aug 31st 2004 20:57:24

It is software like projects like Lynx that make open source systems so good. They are not the most popular/flashy/catchy, but rock solid in my opinion. I used to use lynx for browsing for information, it almost made modem connections useful. Now I use it because it is powerful. Good work.

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