Re: [Lynx-dev] BUG Report

[David Woolley]

Thomas Dickey wrote:

> You can set it in the options menu.  I added the "Send User-Agent 
> Header" checkbox a while back to address this (doesn't affect the stored 
> copy of the user agent).  Some people on the list made comments to the 
> effect that it's worse than the problem with the server -ymmv

This whole business of all GUI user agents being Mozilla, and 
identifying the real agent in the comment, came about because of web 
servers being configured to discriminate against older browsers.

The comments people make about forging the user agent is that if 
browsing statistics never show Lynx, web site developers will conclude 
that no-one uses it, so they can happily continue to write Ecmascript 
applications that only run on the main GUI browsers.

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