Re: [Lynx-dev] Amazon broken (HTTP 204)

[Aahz Maruch]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:01:36AM -0700, Aahz Maruch wrote:
>> 
>> * The newer problem is that using Amazon's "mobile/accessibility"
>> subsite causes an HTTP 204 on this URL:
>> 
>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/ya?ref_=aw_bottom_links_ya
>> 
>> It looks like wget has the same problem.
> 
> Perhaps this is also user-agent?

Ayup, this works:

wget -U 'Mozilla/5.0' -O x 
'https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/ya?ref_=aw_bottom_links_ya'

However, wget uses "Wget/version" as its agent (according to the man
page), so Amazon apparently is blocking multiple agents.
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