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

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Stefan Caunter wrote in <address@hidden>:
 |> 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.
 ...
 |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. 

From my memory i think you are totally mistaken.  At least
regarding anything Javascript alike, which was *anything* by then.
And it had to be done because of different ways of accessing the
document object model with Netscape and Microsoft.  Also Opera
used Subwindows in a main Window, which you better adhered to at
least a bit.  And if i recall correctly many sites blocked early
even if it was completely unnecessary, which is why that UA thing
popped up at first -- right?

Sorry you are the one who hears it, but very generally speaking
that current top-post hype makes me sad.

A nice Sunday i wish.

--steffen
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