Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.7pre.4

[David Woolley]

Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> If this means what I think it does, I'm strongly against this option's
> new default. Lynx should send a user agent by default, for example so

Agreed.  Amongst other things, unless it does, Lynx will score a flat 
zero in browser user statistics, reinforcing the argument that it can be 
totally ignored.

> that people see it's actually used or can optimise for it. The ability
> to turn it off is good only in corner cases, like pages that misunder-
> stand the "optimise" bit above.

Sending no User-Agent header is sufficiently unusual, that I think there 
is a real risk that servers will start discriminating against such browsers.


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