On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 12:35 AM <russellb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com, newyorker.com (and many > others) rely on users' browsers to keep track of the pages they have > accessed so as to limit use. Although lynx keeps cookies, it doesn't > run the script (or whatever it is) that these sites use, thus one can > browse them without limit. >
it does appear that nytimes.com is OK with lynx users freely browsing their site (i can surf through dozens of articles from my ip address)... however, some limiting (wapo, i did not check newyorker) is more sophisticated than this. you will reliably be redirected to the front page of the washington post, if you request any url at all and their counter says you've reached your limit. from my ip address, where i have reached my limit, any request to https://www.washingtonpost.com/foo returns this response lynx -head https://www.washingtonpost.com/foo HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily Server: AkamaiGHost Content-Length: 0 Location: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:07:53 GMT Connection: close __stef _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
