Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx-dev Digest, Vol 145, Issue 6

[David Niklas]

On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 13:01:21 Hal.sz S.ndor wrote:
> 2016/02/18 01:21 ... Karen Lewellen:
> > Larry,
> > these pages are not blank.  they simply do not accept the user header.
> > If you change the send user header option the page will show
> > correctly. However that option is not permanent for good reason.
> > Unless others have ideas, that is the best and fastest way, it is a 2
> > second fix at most.
> > Does someone mine explaining to Larry why the header does need to be
> > present the rest of the time?
> > I know sites behave strangely without it, but others may be able to
> > help him understand as much.
> 
> And I think of the suggestion when changing the User-Agent header that 
> no known webbrowser be named, but instead a variant of "Lynx ...", very 
> good, in that if the webmaster looks at the visitor log, he will see 
> that in spite of all a Lynx-user visited.
> 

I'm confused, do you mean that you want us to visit the web page with the
user agent set to lynx so that the admin might allow lynx?

Thanks, David