Re: lynx-dev Q: lynx shopping?

[Doug Kaufman]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Eduardo [iso-8859-1] Pérez wrote:
> >On 2002-03-11 12:29:17 -0800, Matt Ackeret wrote:
> >> I am virtually positive I have bought things on amazon.com in the past 
> >> using
> >> lynx.  I had to have SSL compiled in, and I *probably* had to have Mozilla
> >> in the User-Agent.
> >
> >Why is not Mozilla in the User-Agent by default?

In all the time I have been using lynx, I think I had to fake the
useragent only two times. I guess it depends on where you try to go.
Why would you want incorrect information in your useragent string?

This should only be a problem at a broken site or one which really
intends to exclude lynx users.
                         Doug

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