On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-10-09 10:34, Jason Min wrote: >> When I use Lynx browser to connect to www.referenceusa.com, it >> fails after 10 trials, whereas other browser like firefox and >> chrome have no problems. > > It looks like it's sniffing the User Agent and acting broken when it > receives something it doesn't recognize. I just swapped my > user-agent string (in the Options) from my default Lynx user-agent of > > Lynx/2.8.8dev.12 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 GNUTLS/2.12.18 > > to the user-agent string from my copy of Firefox: > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 > > and it at least loaded (I'm not familiar with the site, so I don't > know what to expect). > > It's bad site-design on their part to only allow certain user-agents, > but you can't control stupidity. > > -tim > >
on the command line you can say lynx -useragent=mozilla http://www.referenceusa.com to unstupid the site to set it permanently in the options file, change this line in lynx.cfg ENABLE_LYNXRC:useragent:ON otherwise your change only lasts for the one browsing session --stef _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
