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Re: lynx-dev dejanews problems?


From: dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev dejanews problems?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:15:21 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 1998, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote: 
>  
>       [...] 
>  
> > Has anyone experimented with setting the user-agent to see if that's what 
> > triggers the lobotimized version? 
>  
> Yep, and that seems to be the case.  Power search gives the 
> Next/Previous links with lynx as the User Agent.  Simple 
> search leaves Next/Previous out for lynx, but puts them in 
> when I set the User Agent string to "Mozilla/4.05 [en]". 
I don't get Next/Previous in either simple or power search.  But I suspected
the User Agent.
  
> The kicker - I set the User Agent to "Unknown/1.0 [en]" and 
> got the Next/Previous links. 
perhaps it'd be a Good Thing to make it simpler to select different User Agent
strings (i.e., a popup from those that the user has defined in lynx.cfg).
Since dejanews changes other things, it'd be nice to experiment more...
  
> A clear case of anti-lynx behavior! 
probably - it's nice to feel special, I suppose.
  
> --  
> Michael Warner  
> <address@hidden> 


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Thomas E. Dickey
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