Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx: Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Ignac Vucko wrote:
>
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > How did you disable the useragent?
> >
> > I tried -useragent="", but that didn't work either.
>
> That's because there are two checks.  An empty useragent normally sends
> a default user-agent string, but there's an additional feature that I
> added about a year ago
>
>         2009-05-25 (2.8.7pre.3)
>
> which suppresses that entirely.
>
> There's no command-line option (I'm probably going to add one - was also 
> exploring a problem with my configure script...).  It can be turned off in 
> the options menu with this checkbox - but note that the corresponding feature 
> (send_useragent) is normally not saved to .lynxrc:
>
>  Send User-Agent header (!)       : [X]
>
> To allow it to be saved to .lynxrc, you'd add
>
> ENABLE_LYNXRC:send_useragent:ON
>
> to lynx.cfg

...but it doesn't look usable for a -dump, since the option is 
initialized from the compiled-in definition in userdefs.h, and allows
overriding in interactive mode.

If you're able to compile lynx, then that's an easy change...

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