Re: [Lynx-dev] what user agent header?

[Tim Chase]

On 2016-11-03 19:31, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> I am wondering what the default  user agent header is, if you ask
> lynx not to send a user agent header?

If you uncheck the "Send user agent header", it's simply omitted from
the list of headers.  You can test it at

  http://headers.cloxy.net/request.php

which just echoes back the headers your browser sends.  With my stock
lynx on Debian, it includes

 * User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.9dev.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1
   GNUTLS/3.3.8                                           

But when I go into options and turn off "Send user agent header",
that header list-item simply isn't present.

Lynx also offers you the ability to send the header but spoof its
content to pretend to be some other browser.  Few sites check this any
more, but I've had the occasional site that gives truncated content
for normal browsers but gives the full content if you pretend to be
Googlebot (Google's web crawler).

-tim