Getting URLs to Raspian when "difficulties arise"

I now have my networked Raspian Pi set up, RDP-ed, and, thanks to the Grace of an unspecified Deity and a bit of help from Bob Latham, a working 2-way LanMan connection via Omni.

What I have lacked is a dead-easy way of getting a URL – such as that unsubscribe one in Pluto that annoyingly won’t work with NetSurf – across to the Raspian Pi to use Chrome to “do the business”!

Also URLs of those awkward pages which say in NetSurf “button can not be activated”.

Now I have devised a simple HTML index system which I share over the network using WebJames, but which I could equally copy across via LanMan.

It’s an HTML index file created by a little BASIC program which searches its parent directory for suitable things like URL files dragged from NetSurf’s URL bar, text files saved out of NetSurf as selections (in fact any file which starts “http” – others are ignored) and then creates an index page helpfully called, under RISC OS, index/htm.

Thus my folder “URLs”, served to the network by WebJames, brings up the index page on the remote Raspian Pi in Chrome when I enter /URLs/.

All I have to do is drop an appropriate file into the URLs directory and run the !Index program under RISC OS to have my URL available “the other end”. Or, rather, as I’m using RDP, this end but using Chrome under Raspian!

If you’re interested in having a go, the URLs folder with a few specimen links is available at:

http://le.petit.four.free.fr/Software/URLs.zip

for your perusal!

If you haven’t got WebJames installed to serve the file, but do have LanMan working, you could add a line to the Run file to copy the index file over – or copy it yourself each time you remake it (tedious)!

Even if you don’t have a network, the program provides an easy way of having simple HTML index pages created under RISC OS!

It ain’t rocket science, but may be handy!

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