[9fans] my web browsing technique

["matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk>]

I like to use drawterm for my plan9 atm.

so instead of opening a VNC to web browse I've made this little set of
programs.

web_waiter.py

I run this one on my windows box
[the docs say it will work in XFree too but as yet untested]

http://proweb.net/~matt/p9-4/web_waiter.py

it listens on a port and when given something that's got :// in it it opens
up your default browser on that page

web_plumber

on my plan9 machine I run this utility to open the remote port and submit
the url
http://proweb.net/~matt/p9-4/web_plumber.c


and then the plumbing rules :

protocol='(https?|ftp|file|gopher|mailto|news|nntp|telnet|wais)'
domain='[a-zA-Z0-9_@]+([.:][a-zA-Z0-9_@]+)*/?[a-zA-Z0-9_?,%#~&/\-]+'

# URLs go to web browser
type is text
data matches $protocol://$domain$file
plumb to web
plumb start rc -c '/usr/matt/bin/web_plumber -w tcp!192.168.1.101!8005 '$0



I've got a dual screen setup so I have drawterm in the main window and the
Mozilla in the second window

m