Re: [Lynx-dev] Getting the "Forbidden" error message

[Stefan Caunter]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Hart Larry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Well, yes Karen-and-all, that error is becoming way too frequent, but when I
> go in an options menu, if I replace the string which mentions a Lynx
> version-and-replace with even a word Mozilla, it won't remain saved. And at
> the bottom of a lynx.cfg file, an actual Mozilla version, but seemingly no
> luck. Thanks so much in advance
> Hart
>

If you want User-Agent control available in Options, add these lines to lynx.cfg

ENABLE_LYNXRC:SEND_USERAGENT:ON
ENABLE_LYNXRC:USERAGENT:ON

The first lets you toggle sending U-A header. The second lets you
change U-A header.

You can put something like this to get around U-A blocking

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0)

If you don't have access to lynx.cfg there are command line switches
that you can alias in to the lynx invocation.

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Stefan Caunter