Re: [Lynx-dev] HTTP1.1/ 204 NoContent Error

[Thorsten Glaser]

Karen Lewellen dixit:

> then I tried Gordon's suggestion, unchecked the box, and my information

Often adding "MSIE5" to the User-Agent, or prepending
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible); " to it will also help.

This avoids not sending the Lynx identifier, while
fooling most “evil” webservers (that restrict based
on the User-Agent) into serving one.

Netcologne’s web presence is one of these, too…

Not sending any User-Agent, especially permanently, is not good.
Consider making you a shell alias, like this:

alias lynxmoz="lynx -useragent='Mozilla/5.0 (compatible); Lynx/2.8.8pre.5 
libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 GNUTLS/2.12.23' "

(This value for Lynx in Debian unstable.)

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