Mason83 <root@dom.invalid> writes:

> On 30/01/2017 23:46, Richmond wrote:
>> If I visit this page:
>> 
>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2017/01/30/how-is-the-internet-doing-mozillas-ambitious-check-up-effort/
>> 
>> with Seamonkey (2.49a2) and javascript disabled, it displays a blank
>> page. However if I visit it with a text browser, e.g. w3m or lynx, I
>> can read the story. Wouldn't it be useful if SM displayed the text?
>> 
>> (I tried with firefox {with javascript disabled) too but got a
>> blurred darkened image of the page and a circle).
>
> They're probably doing server-side client sniffing?
>
> I don't get the same page in SM and wget.
>
> But if I change the SM User Agent, I still don't get the same
> page I get with wget... Weird.

If you get the page with wget and then run it through html2text you get
the article as you do with w3m. In fact if you view the source of the
page with SM you can see text although it is difficult to read with all
the stuff around it.
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