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


From: Stefan Caunter
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Getting the "Forbidden" error message
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 17:09:28 -0400

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Jude DaShiell <address@hidden> wrote:
> I haven't checked that really current version out yet but was using
> development versions of lynx that kept getting me access denied and this was
> with the correct credentials.  Later I found in my gmail when I was able to
> access it with another browser that the attempt had been blocked by google
> since the program used to attempt the access didn't have enough modern
> security equipment in it for google to allow a connection unless or until I
> lowered security to use legacy software.  Don't you just love calling
> lynx-dev legacy software even though it still has active support? I don't!On
> Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Stefan Caunter wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 13:24:41
>> From: Stefan Caunter <address@hidden>
>> To: Jude DaShiell <address@hidden>
>> Cc: David Woolley <address@hidden>,
>>     "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Getting the "Forbidden" error message
>>
>> News to me.
>>
>> Are you saying that lynx over https cannot talk to gmail?
>>
>> Using
>>
>> Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.3 (05 Jan 2015)
>> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1j, ncurses 5.9.20110404
>> Built on darwin13.4.0 Jan  5 2015 21:06:25
>>
>> gmail loads basic html version just fine for a gmail account, see
>> header from logged in session
>>
>> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Security-Policy: script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'
>> 'unsafe-eval' 'nonce-ZJsmcZTNYUBsA/VEKdc6UwT/3LE'
>> https://ssl.gstatic.c
>> om;frame-src 'self' https://isolated.mail.google.com
>> https://accounts.google.com;object-src 'none';report-uri
>> /mail/cspreport
>> Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
>> Pragma: no-cache
>> Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT
>> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 17:22:10 GMT
>> X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
>> X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
>> X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
>> Content-Length: 0
>> Server: GSE
>> Set-Cookie: GMAIL_ZY=e; Path=/mail/u/0; Secure; HttpOnly
>> Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=1
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Stefan Caunter
>> Hamilton, Canada
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Jude DaShiell <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, if someone tries reading gmail using lynx and security level on
>>> their
>>> account is set to high, lynx will not be allowed access since it hasn't
>>> got
>>> all of the modern security equipment installed in google chrome.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, David Woolley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:59:25
>>>> From: David Woolley <address@hidden>
>>>> To: address@hidden
>>>> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Getting the "Forbidden" error message
>>>>
>>>> On 30/06/15 21:29, Shel Talmy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, via google, acknowledge this has been going on for years, and it's
>>>>> happening to me increasingly.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using LYNX 2.87, which apart from from the above, works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please tell me what to do to correct this, and thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> If you are being asked for a password, supply the right one.  Otherwise
>>>> it
>>>> is likely to be a legal question, rather than a technical one, i.e. is
>>>> there
>>>> any legal reason why the servers should not refuse to talk to Lynx, and
>>>> if
>>>> so, are you prepared to take the operators to court.
>>>>
>>>> In many cases of discrimination against Lynx, using the user Agent
>>>> string
>>>> for a recent IE or Mozilla may get round the block, but the site may
>>>> then
>>>> serve web applications that only works on those browsers.

You can call it whatever you want, lynx works fine with gmail. I don't
understand the implication that it doesn't, suggested on this list,
without supporting evidence or a trace.

S



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