Re: [Lynx-dev] Changing UserAgent string in Lynx

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, David wrote:
> >
> > > I know this is not a development question, but how do I change the user
> > > agent string in Lynx 2.8.5/GNU linux such that every time I start lynx,
> > > it stays the same.  I read the man page, the online manual, and looked
> > > in the lynx.cfg file to no effect.  Going to the [O]ptions menu and
> > > changing it there is not persistent across browser restarts and I cannot
> > > get to the key-based menu described in the help file.
> >
> > The data would be saved into $HOME/.lynxrc (if you save the results in the
> > Options menu.  Perhaps you did not check the box for save-to-disk.
>
> Before this would work, he would have to set:
> ENABLE_LYNXRC:useragent:ON
> in lynx.cfg. Otherwise, useragent would not be saved.

ok - and if it's not set, there is a "(!)" marker on the line in the 
options menu indicating that it is readonly.

For instance I have these in my lynx.cfg:

ENABLE_LYNXRC:tagsoup:on 
ENABLE_LYNXRC:assume_char_set:on 
ENABLE_LYNXRC:display:on 
ENABLE_LYNXRC:make_pseudo_alts_for_inlines:on 
ENABLE_LYNXRC:make_links_for_all_images:on 
ENABLE_LYNXRC:raw_mode:on 
ENABLE_LYNXRC:scrollbar:on 
ENABLE_LYNXRC:set_cookies:on 
ENABLE_LYNXRC:show_kb_rate:on 
ENABLE_LYNXRC:useragent:on

(The options menu doesn't show another marker for the enabled items,
so I forgot that I'd enabled some).

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