Re: lynx-dev lycos non lynx friendly

[Mike Castle]

Amazingly enough Doug Kaufman said:
> On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Mike Castle wrote:
> > Has anyone else been having problems lately using the Lycos search engine
> > with lynx?
> > 
> > Even changing the user agent doesn't seem to accomplish anything.
> 
> It seems to work for me if you spoof the useragent to "Mozilla/4.02". I
> can't seem to see what they are doing, even with trace mode.


Ahh.  

I was simply using "L y n x" and "Mozilla"

Apparently their server is rather finicky.

Thanks,
mrc
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