Re: LYNX-DEV user agent?

[Bill Schiavo]

Hello everyone.

Upgrade to lynx 2.8.  A patch has been included to give you a command line
user agent string parameter.  I don't think that the man page has been
updated though.


On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Ari Moisio wrote:
> >  There is no need to hack it into source code, one can simply use
> >-useragent command line parameter when needed.
> 
> If I knew there were a command line parameter I probably wouldn't've started
> this whole hassle.  I just read the man page, and it doesn't mention a
> -useragent parameter.
> 
> NOTES
>      This is the Lynx v2.7.2 Release for Unix/VMS
> 
> Admittedly it's not a 2.8 version of Lynx, but if this parameter has existed,
> at least it's not in the man page.
> 
> >  But why MSIE have to lie it's identity, is there something wrong in www
> >sites too.
> 
> MSIE has to lie because web sites did the wrong thing all along, and IE had
> to falsify *just to work* with web sites that IE could properly display.
> (Though I don't know where it was ever documented to check "just the first
> part" of the useragent, where people can put the extra stuff on the end..)
> 
Bill