Re: [Lynx-dev] Copyright violation? How?

[Stefan Caunter]

Indeed I have never seen that message, but in the 90s, servers did not screw 
with clients based on UA headers (much), so it was uncommon to set it. I 
remember reading the Washington Post and hotmail with no issues back then. 

S

> On Nov 15, 2019, at 20:00, Ian Collier <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:55:43PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> Mouse dixit:
>>> #define UA_COPYRIGHT_WARNING \
>>> "WARNING: Misrepresentation of the User-Agent may be a copyright violation!"
> 
>> Eh, I've never seen that one... not between 2.8.6 and 2.9 anyway.
>> If it existed it must be positively ancient.
> 
> Yes, you are right.  It appears to me that this text was present in 2.8.2
> but was eliminated in 2.8.3dev.13, released October 1999.
> 
> * made User-Agent warning more friendly, and more specific.  Tell the user 
> what
>  lynx expects in order to avoid the warning.  On the other hand, issue an
>  equivalent warning when -useragent is used.  Change documentation
>  accordingly.
> 
> imc
> 
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