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Re: lynx-dev user agent when running lynx via crontab entry?


From: mattack
Subject: Re: lynx-dev user agent when running lynx via crontab entry?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:50:28 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, David Woolley wrote:
>> Strange.. it _did_ work yesterday (my 4pm automated email of StudioBriefing).
>> ..and I had made no further changes after the initial -useragent attempt.
>> 
>
>Are you saying the forged user agent was unnecessary?  Then why use
>it in the first place.  IMDB do definitely block by user agent.
>
>I haven't tried Lynx on IMDB recently, but as far as I can tell the only
>reason it wouldn't get blocked is that there are so few people using it.

No, I'm not sure what happened.  The info at the bottom of the email
messages said that the user agent was _empty_, not that it said lynx.

Maybe I'll put in another cron entry to send it without explicit user agent 
setting and compare the two.


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