Re: [Lynx-dev] Problems with logging into the Bank of America website

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 04:55:25PM -0500, Leslie Fairall wrote:
> I used to be able to log into online banking with Bank of America using 
> the user-agent header:
> 
> Mozilla/6.2 [lynx]
> 
> However, after I click on the refresh page, I get the message:
> 
> 
>    REFRESH(8 sec):
>    [1]https://sitekey.bankofamerica.com/sas/signon.do?&detect=0
>    Bank of America Higher Standards Online Banking [EMBED]

Perhaps it's diving into some javascript (I can't tell just from this).
Going to that URL and accepting the cookie, I get a screen that looks
like this:

   Bank of America

      Please tell us where you bank so we can give you information for your
      location.


   [Select location_____]
                          Go

   Bank of America, N.A. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender  Equal Housing
   Lender
   © 2005 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved.


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