Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx browser can not connect to www.referenceusa.com

[Jason Min]

Thank you very much for the reply.
Using Tim's suggestion, I am able to get the main page of the site.
However, I can not submit the search form as I asked to Tim.

After I chose business search, and I entered 'abc' for the company name, I can not trigger the search.  If click right 
arrow or hit enter button on the 'View Results' , it does not submit the search request. Is there any way to submit the 
form?

Thank you.

On 10/9/2013 11:16 AM, Stefan Caunter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Tim Chase<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > On 2013-10-09 10:34, Jason Min wrote:
> > > When I use Lynx browser to connect to www.referenceusa.com, it
> > > fails after 10 trials, whereas other browser like firefox and
> > > chrome have no problems.
> > It looks like it's sniffing the User Agent and acting broken when it
> > receives something it doesn't recognize.  I just swapped my
> > user-agent string (in the Options) from my default Lynx user-agent of
> >
> >    Lynx/2.8.8dev.12 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 GNUTLS/2.12.18
> >
> > to the user-agent string from my copy of Firefox:
> >
> >    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
> >
> > and it at least loaded (I'm not familiar with the site, so I don't
> > know what to expect).
> >
> > It's bad site-design on their part to only allow certain user-agents,
> > but you can't control stupidity.
> >
> > -tim
> on the command line you can say
>
> lynx -useragent=mozilla http://www.referenceusa.com
>
> to unstupid the site
>
> to set it permanently in the options file, change this line in lynx.cfg
>
> ENABLE_LYNXRC:useragent:ON
>
> otherwise your change only lasts for the one browsing session
>
> --stef