Re: [Lynx-dev] web filtering for LYNX

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:34:18AM +0100, John Galloway wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a schools ICT advisor in Tower Hamlets in London's East End. 
> 
> I have been asked by a parent if it is possible to apply family
> filtering settings to LYNX so that he can confidently let his son use it
> as his preferred browser and know that he can filter out undesirable
> content, as with family filtering using Norton Antivirus on Internet
> Explorer.
> 
> I have no experience of Linux systems and would appreciate some help
> with this question.  Thank you.

Lynx is text-only (it relies on external programs for displaying images).
That is configured using the "mailcap" files in one's home directory and
on the system, e.g.,
        $HOME/.mailcap
        /etc/mailcap

Most of the image content will go away if you configure it to accept only
lynx's internal types in the "Preferred media type" setting.

For filtering text - I don't know...

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