Re: FreeBSD Bounties

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> question:  if the "browser_products" of other entities are --so--
> problematic, just --how-- difficult would it be to "roll our own" ?
> 
> note that this question is --not-- the same as asking
>    how long it would take to code all of the whiz_bangs
>    that the marketing_department_dweebs want to advertise.
> 
> it doesn't have to do everything,
>    but, what it does do must be done well; reliably, predictably.
> 
> i would want it to do things "the bsd way", e. g., search by reg_ex.
> it would be totally divorced from anything "gnu".
> i don't care about animation [ images hog bandwidth, big_time ].
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>    i have been researching how to write a "browser".
> it is my understanding that,
>    once i can recursively render tables, the rest is comparitively easy.
> i have not, just yet, figured_out how to do the secure_http thing
>    [ this is where i am stalled ].
> i want a program
>    that, either, is or, to the outside_world, appears to be a
> "browser"_like thingy and which is --programmable--,
>    so that it may, in co_ordination with my book_keeping app,
>    log in to any account,
>    >----> to which i am already authorized access, <----<
>    such as my bank or my electric_utility,
>    in the middle_of_the_night, while i am asleep,
>    to down_load transaction_events or other postings,
>    to up_load bill_payment schedulings or other instructions,
>    so that i don't have to use my waking moments to
>    do these routine, but, necessary, time_consuming chores.

isn't "links" or "lynx", with some modifications, exactly what you
want? or are they too complex to modify?

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> rob spellberg

[SorAlx]  ridin' VN2000 Classic LT
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