Re: LYNX-DEV Odd behavior with lynx2.6

[Rick Mallett]

Roger Hill writes:
> 
> On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Philip Webb wrote:
> 
> > > > I've been having some problems viewing
> > > >  http://espnet.sportszone.com  using lynx 2.6.
> > > > Anytime I try viewing anything ... , the pages for Dec 18th pop up.
> > > > I thought this may have been a web caching issue (I ...
> I tried it with 2-6 on my Linux box, and got the same 18th Dec page. I
> thought that it maybe had something to do with the user agent string, so I
> changed that to Lynx 2/5 or whatever, but it came back with the same
> stuff.
> 

Try changing the user agent to `Mozilla/3.0 (Win16; I)' or to
`Microsoft Internet Explorer/4.40.308 (Windows 95)' and you get
the correct page. In fact, it appears that you can set the user 
agent to anything other than Lynx and get the correct page. I 
didn't try all possibilities but I did try `Bozzo Browser' and
`Proxy gateway CERN-HTTPD/3.0 libwww/2.17' and each time I got
the correct (today's) page. It might just be an obscure bug 
but at this point it looks like a case of outright discrimination
against our favorite browser.

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Rick Mallett
Carleton University

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