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Re: [Lynx-dev] 403 forbidden in Lynx but not other browsers?
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] 403 forbidden in Lynx but not other browsers? |
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Fri, 11 May 2007 12:22:24 -0400 |
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:15:31AM -0500, Stef Caunter wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:
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> >>>User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.5rel.4 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7d\r
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> >>This is okay with 2.8.6rel.1 - are you really using 2.8.5? This might
> >>explain things.
> >
> >I assumed the 2.8.5 was leftover in the optoins (since lynx does not
> >change it once it's set). Clearing the field in the options menu will
> >force it to put in a current string.
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> My understanding of [O]ptions is that there is no persistent User-Agent
> setting (marked with (!) indicates this) - so UA string can lie if lynx is
> aliased as 'lynx -useragent="hello from lynx2.8.5" ' but can't lie
> otherwise.
That can be changed (and I'd forgotten it was one of these):
ENABLE_LYNXRC:useragent:on
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