From: Gordon Ross (G.Ross_at_ccw.gov.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2007 - 10:32:44 CET
Message-Id: <45ED3538.AC0B.0006.3@ccw.gov.uk> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:32:44 +0000 From: "Gordon Ross" <G.Ross@ccw.gov.uk> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] W3M Browser for registration
>>> On 06 March 2007 at 09:30, in message
<20070306093012.GB17487@suse.de>, Marcus
Meissner <meissner@suse.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:04:01AM +0000, Gordon Ross wrote:
>> Can I ask that Novell/SuSE seriously look at changing the
registration
>> system for SLES 10 when building SLES without a GUI. The w3m
"browser"
>> just doesn't cut the mustard. At the end of the day, it appears that
all
>> that w3m does is allow you to enter an e-mail address and an
activation
>> code. Why can't we do that with YaST ? YaST works - even in text
mode.
>>
>> Please !
>
> It was requested to have the ability to handle any web forms there.
>
> We tried to convince product management not to do it, but do it on
> YAST level ... but did not succeed.
>
> All yay for shine web interfaces.
Sit management infront of two systems: One which has a YaST
registration screen, and the other that has the w3m registration screen.
See which one they complete first.
Oh - and make sure they do it over a slow Internet link...
GTG
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