LYNX-DEV using lynx to fetch source and mime headers for a document

[Chris Lightfoot]

Hi,

I'm writing a script to process text and HTML files grabbed from HTTP
servers, and which should reject other sorts of files. So, at the moment,
it does

        lynx -head -dump <url>

and parses the result for a Content-type: header, which it checks. It then
does

        lynx -source <url>

to get the source of the document. Unfortunately, if it is passed a URL
like

        http://somewhere/something

when the real URL is

        http://somewhere/something/

then the -head -dump command retrieves the headers for the redirect sent
back by the remote server, whereas the -source gets the text of the
document to which it is redirected. Is there any way to make lynx get the
headers for the final document in this way, or do I have to parse them
manually and call lynx -head -dump repeatedly?

Thanks in advance.


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