Re: [Lynx-dev] Send user-agent header setting

[David Woolley]

On 11/08/2019 17:47, dan d. wrote:
> Some web sites which otherwise deny entrance; will sometimes allow it if this 
> is offf.  I have found none which deny entrance if it is off.

> Is it posssible to have a future version which allows an optional off option at 
> startup?

I think you are in an arms race.  Any such change is only going to be 
effective if very few requests get made without a user agent.  If it 
becomes more common, the filters will get changed.  Arguably it is a bug 
in the user agent processing that it is getting through at the moment.