Re: LYNX-DEV http://www.netbuyer.com

[tzeruch]

On Mon, 19 May 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:

> "John E. Davis" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >On Mon, 19 May 1997 15:56:03 -0400 (GMT+4), Roger Hill <address@hidden> said:
> >>>   Now it's returning a correct status, and a body, for
> >>> redirection to that mindless "Downoad Netscape or MSIE" unpaid
> >>> (probably) advertisement.
> >>> 
> >>Yes, I'm getting that now too. Geez, that annoys me.
> >
> >Is there any way to get lynx to lie about the browser and tell the
> >server that it is really netscape?
> 
>       If you first read my "legal disclaimer" in the "Lynx Option Menu"
> section of the "Lynx Users Guide" about the "User Agent" option, at your
> own legal risk you can modify the user (A)gent field via the 'o'ptions
> menu to Mozilla/3.0 (compatible ...) and bypass that annoying redirection
> (that's just a guess, honest, just a guess :).
> 
>                               Fote

If you read the source of what is returned, it contains the following
string:

Mozilla/3.0Gold (Win95; I) [Netscape]

I think it really wants Mozilla/3.0 - including the slash (most others
like a space instead of the slash).

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