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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: it's "frames" sites complain about, not "forms"
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David Woolley |
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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: it's "frames" sites complain about, not "forms" |
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Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:41:44 +0100 (BST) |
>
> re the "correct id in parentheses": please give us an
> exact example of what the user agent string should be,
> one that seems to work most everywhere. Parens and all,
> so we can just paste it into our alias, so to speak.
I don't reccommend forging the user agents and it often doesn't work
or is counter productive because many sites do not look at it (most
"use this browser" responses are <NOFRAMES> text in static pages, not
custom pages for the browser) or produce more Lynx friendly pages on
recognizing Lynx. But what I was suggesting would be like:
Mozilla/4.05 (Really L y n x/2.8.1)
with the spaces in the L y n x to try to deflect sites which positively
recognize Lynx rather than detecting the lack of a Netscape. However,
as MSIE identifies itself in the comment, you may find sites that white
list the whole user agent string. The best way of handling MSIE is to
do a substring search, not to match the whole string.
Note that page authors are often reccommended to use Javascript to customise
for a browser. Lynx is never going to work with such client side scripting.
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