Method9455
December 9th, 2007, 02:40 AM
Hi all,
I'm at a hospital with a family member and my Ubuntu laptop. I need to get into a website for some information, but I don't have the password, and the owner of the site doesn't read his email often enough to get back in time. I know the site is accessible from my Ubuntu desktop at school, because it is on the college network. The network is closed from the outside. My desktop at school is on and I have an SSH server opened and connected. I know the address of the site I need. How do I navigate to the page and read it through the command line? I have wget but that just downloads right? I know how to open X windows servers through ssh, but can I just open firefox and tunnel it through SSH or do I need to use an X specific utility? Is there something that will print a website to the command line like cat? I just need the text not the pictures.
Thanks, help would be greatly appreciated. Got to love when Linux is actually saving our *** doing something windows can't, I knew there was a reason I switched.
I'm at a hospital with a family member and my Ubuntu laptop. I need to get into a website for some information, but I don't have the password, and the owner of the site doesn't read his email often enough to get back in time. I know the site is accessible from my Ubuntu desktop at school, because it is on the college network. The network is closed from the outside. My desktop at school is on and I have an SSH server opened and connected. I know the address of the site I need. How do I navigate to the page and read it through the command line? I have wget but that just downloads right? I know how to open X windows servers through ssh, but can I just open firefox and tunnel it through SSH or do I need to use an X specific utility? Is there something that will print a website to the command line like cat? I just need the text not the pictures.
Thanks, help would be greatly appreciated. Got to love when Linux is actually saving our *** doing something windows can't, I knew there was a reason I switched.