On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, John B. Matthews wrote:
In article <Pine.GSO.4.64.1007031956330.6728@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca>, Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:On Sat, 3 Jul 2010, John B. Matthews wrote:Does your implementation support -useragent=Name?Yes, but it resets itself. Saving the change doesn't stick.Is there any way to invoke it with the option set? Perhaps a command line script? Sorry to be vague, but I've only used lynx from a terminal under VMS or UNIX. I don't know anything about your host environment.
It shouldn't be necessary, the server is at fault. There was a time when these things mattered, I once put up a quote from Tim Berners Lee about how the web was not supposed to discriminate. The fact that nobody is noticing problems with Lynx other than the site rejects you if you are using Lynx is a very strong indicator that there is nothing wrong it's just made up at the server level. If there were problems when someone used Lynx but changed the user agent name, then that might be a different matter, sometimes there is some actual good reason for being browser specific (though that is pushing things for most websites). But there isn't a problem, the server simply rejects you if you're using Lynx. Michael