On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Jerry L. Kazdan wrote:
> Because of some changes the New York Times made to their website, when
> I attempt something like
>
> lynx -source -auth=Userid:Passwd@http://www.nytimes.com/... > MyFile
As Leonid has already pointed out, this is the wrong syntax.
> Based on many experiments I have done to untangle this, it seems
> (likely) that
>
> linux -source <ComplicatedTargetURL>
>
> somehow informs the TargetURL that this is not being sent to the
> screen. [...]
There is nothing in the code to intentionally tell the server "that
this is not being sent to the screen", last I checked. But you
can verify that for yourself - with -trace, you get a log of the
full requests, from the "GET' to the last byte, that lynx sends.
Klaus
