Re: [Lynx-dev] Suggestion for send user-agent header question

[Karen Lewellen]

Somewhere convenience...according to whom?
Consider that  there are Lynx users accessing the browser as a part of 
shell  services.  meaning editing  the field  randomly may impact others 
as well.
Then there is the risk that testing options results in the site deciding 
you  are a hacker.
Amazon three times in the past 48 hours decided that  my efforts seeking a 
work around on my own triggered their detection of too many requests.
I would rather have  options  for the field  I could choose on the fly.


On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, address@hidden wrote:

>         Opera has some preset values for user-agent header which one
> can change on the fly, as well as allowing customization.  I wouldn't
> bother the developers of lynx to do that.  You can keep some standard
> strings available somewhere convenient, mark & transfer different ones
> into the field as desired.  I've dealt with every problem I've
> encountered by adding stuff and removing 'lynx' (washingtonpost.com
> blocks users with that in the UA header; JAMA sends them to their
> mobile, hence incomplete, pages).  It's their mistakes even if
> lynx-users suffer.  Why pick on us?  Did a lynx eat their pet dog when
> they were children?
>
> russell bell
>
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