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Re: LYNX-DEV user agent?


From: T.E.Dickey
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV user agent?
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 20:20:45 -0500 (EST)

> >>>>> "MA" == Matt Ackeret <address@hidden> writes: 
>  
> MA> So nobody knows how to get lynx to save the user agent? 
>  
> It's not that no one knows, it's that Lynx won't do it.  It was 
> decided that saving a false user agent string was a Bad Thing for 
                                                      --- -----
ah.  thanks for reminding me (I'd forgotten, but now I remember)

> copyright reasons (Netscape was threatening to sue anyone spoofing 
> their agent string at one time).  So Lynx doesn't save the user-agent 
> string; you can change that if you want for your own use, but I don't 
> think that will get rolled into the main code unless opinion on the 
> group has changed. 
  
> | Jason F. McBrayer              address@hidden | 

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