Re: Official Apple II documentation?

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.1007040841130.25573@darkstar.example.net>,
 Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

> 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.

I don't disagree; I was looking at a practical workaround.
 
> ... the server simply rejects you if you're using Lynx.

You're right! In addition to rejecting a null User-Agent string, the 
site also rejects my version's default: Lynx/2.8.8dev.2 libwww-FM/2.14 
SSL-MM/1.4.1. Alternatively, this seems to work:

lynx -useragent=Lynx http://www.Apple2Online.com/

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