Re: LYNX-DEV user agent?

[David Woolley]

> 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
> copyright reasons (Netscape was threatening to sue anyone spoofing

It would also be another nail in the coffin for the proper user of 
User Agent.  At the moment MSIE is Netscape as far as the HTTP user
agent string algorithm is concerned; that makes it difficult to separate
brand and version information, because the true information is only
in a comment field.