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Re: [Lynx-dev] Amazon broken (HTTP 204)
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] Amazon broken (HTTP 204) |
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Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:03:45 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:01:36AM -0700, Aahz Maruch wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Amazon broke Lynx about three months ago; I tried chatting with them
> today, but they won't even give me a bug number (although they claim
> they'll forward a message to their technical team). Because "links"
> works with Amazon, I figured I'd try asking y'all whether there's
> something you can do.
>
> There are actually two problems:
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> * The newer problem is that using Amazon's "mobile/accessibility"
> subsite causes an HTTP 204 on this URL:
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> https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/ya?ref_=aw_bottom_links_ya
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> It looks like wget has the same problem.
Perhaps this is also user-agent?
(I'm in the middle of upgrading a server, otherwise would test this).
> Figure I'll send this anyway in case it helps someone else. :-( I
> haven't seen broken cookie behavior based on User-Agent before.
When someone sets out to intentionally break their web server, it can have lots
of symptoms.
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