LYNX-DEV suggestion to provide command line argument to lynx for setting User-Agent header

[Merlin Mathesius]

Greetings,

I would like to suggest/request that a command line argument be officially  
added to Lynx to support the setting of the "User-Agent" header.

There is already an interactive way to set the "User-Agent" value through the  
options screen, but my application for using an alternate header needs to be  
scripted.  And the addition of just a few lines of code seems to take care of  
this quite nicely!  Below, I've attached a context diff of the source code  
change I made to Lynx 2.7.2 to do just this.

Thanks for listening!

Sincerely,

Merlin J. Mathesius
Perot Systems Corporation at SBCWDR

P.S. I just noticed something in the code snippet below.  Isn't there a bug  
in the following line:
      if (strncmp(argv[0], "-underscore", 15) == 0) {
shouldn't this be:
      if (strncmp(argv[0], "-underscore", 11) == 0) {
????!!!!


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*** src/LYMain.c.ORIG   Mon Dec 22 18:40:06 1997
--- src/LYMain.c        Mon Feb 23 14:35:16 1998
***************
*** 2383,2396 ****
--- 2383,2403 ----
      case 'u':
      if (strncmp(argv[0], "-underscore", 15) == 0) {
        if (use_underscore)
            use_underscore = FALSE;
        else
            use_underscore = TRUE;

+     } else if (strncmp(argv[0], "-useragent", 10) == 0) {
+       /*
+        *  Set alternate Lynx User-Agent header.
+        */
+       if (nextarg)
+           StrAllocCopy(LYUserAgent, cp);
+
      } else {
          goto Output_Error_and_Help_List;
      }
      break;

      case 'v':
      if (strcmp(argv[0], "-validate") == 0) {
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