On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Henry Nelson wrote:
>> ...and what about the servers that deliver a completely different page
>
>And what about them? It's your choice: sell Lynx out, or send an agent
>string that truthfully identifies Lynx _and_ its capabilities. Unfortunately,
>that often means _including_ within the string "Mozilla" or "MSIE 4". It
>definitely does NOT mean leaving out "Lynx+version."
Well, I don't currently have the lynx version in there, but it's
amazing that people are arguing against being able to *use* web sites.
Lynx already has some "work with bad html" features. With the attitude
about user-agent given here by some others, all of those should be ripped
out to further limit the amount of web pages that work with lynx.
With regard to lynx, I am mostly a *user*. I want the browser to work with
the same pages that other browsers work with. If that means spoofing a
user agent string to get into several sites, I do that.
I run with the standard user agent most of the time, but have aliases set
up to use a mozilla user agent for those commercial sites that I know I
need to use it with.
That is just being realistic.
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